Bug#860950: steam: attempt to induce similar fatal crash

[Stephen Liebbe]

Package: steam
Followup-For: Bug #860950

Dear Maintainer,

attempted to induce crash by disabling GLX extension and removing the missing file. Results follow

$ grep GLX ~/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log
[     4.347] (**) Extension "GLX" is disabled
$ rm ~/.steam/public/steambootstrapper_english.txt
$ steam
Running Steam on debian 9 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
[2017-05-09 15:51:40] Startup - updater built Apr 25 2017 22:45:11
[2017-05-09 15:51:40] Verifying installation...
[2017-05-09 15:51:40] BVerifyInstalledFiles: public/steambootstrapper_english.txt is -1 bytes, expected 3602
[2017-05-09 15:51:40] Verification complete
[2017-05-09 15:51:40] Downloading Update...
[2017-05-09 15:51:40] Checking for available update...
[2017-05-09 15:51:41] Download Complete.
[2017-05-09 15:51:41] uninstalled manifest found in /home/stretch/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12 (1).
[2017-05-09 15:51:41] Extracting package...
[2017-05-09 15:51:51] Installing update...
[2017-05-09 15:51:54] Cleaning up...
[2017-05-09 15:51:54] Update complete, launching...
[2017-05-09 15:51:54] Shutdown
Restarting Steam by request...
Running Steam on debian 9 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /home/stretch/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime
[2017-05-09 15:51:54] Startup - updater built Apr 25 2017 22:45:11
[2017-05-09 15:51:54] Verifying installation...
[2017-05-09 15:51:54] Verification complete
At this point a graphical notification window is show that says "OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display"
Clicking OK ends steam program execution, returning to command prompt.

Current testing distribution of steam reinstalls missing file and handles GLX error properly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64
 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.18 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages steam depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]            1.5.60
ii  libc6                            2.24-10
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri                  13.0.6-1+b2
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx                  13.0.6-1+b2
ii  libgpg-error0                    1.26-2
ii  libstdc++6                       6.3.0-16
ii  libtxc-dxtn-s2tc [libtxc-dxtn0]  1.0+git20151227-2
ii  libudev1                         232-22
ii  libx11-6                         2:1.6.4-3
ii  libxinerama1                     2:1.1.3-1+b3
ii  xz-utils                         5.2.2-1.2+b1

Versions of packages steam recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation                      1:1.07.4-2
ii  gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  3.22.2-1
ii  libxss1                               1:1.2.2-1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           327-2
ii  zenity                                3.22.0-1+b1

Versions of packages steam suggests:
ii  steam-devices  1.0.0.54-2

-- debconf information:
* steam/question: I AGREE
* steam/license:
  steam/purge: