I upgraded the hard drive on my thinkpad and on the fresh install (hyprland) steam suddenly doesn’t work. It gives and X error so I’m guessing something broke regarding steam’s functionality with Wayland?
~ steam
steam.sh[34953]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[34953]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[35005]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[34953]: Log already open
steam.sh[34953]: Steam client’s requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
SaveRegistryVDF
SaveRegistryVDF completed successfully
SaveRegistryVDF
SaveRegistryVDF completed successfully
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Startup - updater built Dec 23 2025 00:47:59
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Startup - Steam Client launched with: ‘/home/k1nch0/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam’ ‘-srt-logger-opened’
01/17 22:13:20 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
01/17 22:13:20 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1766451605)/tid(35062)
Looks like steam didn’t shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
SaveRegistryVDF
SaveRegistryVDF completed successfully
SaveRegistryVDF
SaveRegistryVDF completed successfully
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Process started with command-line: ‘/home/k1nch0/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam’ ‘-child-update-ui’ ‘-child-update-ui-socket’ ‘8’ ‘-srt-logger-opened’
01/17 22:13:20 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/k1nch0/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] 1. https client-update.akamai.steamstatic com, /, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 400, source = ‘update_hosts_cached.vdf’
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] 2. https client-update.fastly.steamstatic com, /, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 900, source = ‘update_hosts_cached.vdf’
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] 3. https client-update.steamstatic com, /, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 1, source = ‘baked in’
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Checking for update on startup
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Checking for available updates…
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Downloading manifest: https: // client-update.akamai.steamstatic com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Manifest download: send request
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Using update UI: xwin
01/17 22:13:20 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(35063)
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Create window
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Manifest download: finished
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1766451605, installed version 1766451605, existing pending version 0
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Nothing to do
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Verifying installation…
[2026-01-17 22:13:20] Verifying all executable checksums
[2026-01-17 22:13:21] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/k1nch0/.local/share/Steam/logs
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf6258dc0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf6257500
crash_20260117221321_5.dmp[35078]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20260117221321_5.dmp
crash_20260117221321_5.dmp[35078]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20260117221321_5.dmp[35078]: response: CrashID=bp-78c97f92-2849-4889-b47d-ed3332260117
crash_20260117221321_5.dmp[35078]: file ‘’/tmp/dumps/crash_20260117221321_5.dmp’', upload yes: ‘‘CrashID=bp-78c97f92-2849-4889-b47d-ed3332260117’’
/home/k1nch0/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 928: 35062 Segmentation fault (core dumped) “$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH” “$@”
CPU: AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX PRO 370 (24) @ 5.16 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon 890M Graphics [Integrated]
Memory: 32 GiB