Re: Steam is broken on new kernels

From: Pierre-Loup A. Griffais
Date: Fri Jun 21 2019 - 17:45:37 EST




On 6/21/19 2:41 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 02:27:41PM -0700, Pierre-Loup A. Griffais wrote:
This seems to have broken us:

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/ChangeLog-5.1.11

Here's some affected users:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6326

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/c37lmh/psa_steam_does_not_connect_on_kernels_newer_than/

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Networking-Kernel-Woes

I don't really understand that distributions that claim to be desktop
products would have fast-tracked a server-oriented fix to all their users
without testing one of the primary desktop usecases, but that's another
thing to figure out later.


What specific commit caused the breakage?

Unclear as of yet, we're starting that process on our end just now. Not sure if a user has already performed a bisect and shared his findings in one of the links below, but we'll be scouring these and doing our own testing as next steps.