So, I am looking for any ideas, help or head(s) smarter than mine.

This is my main problem for some time now, easiest way to replicate this is to run anything proton related. After that, some apps just keep spitting this via dmesg:

[ 1403.146954] eartag[5309]: segfault at 30 ip 000077f7d796491c sp 00007ffe20a35210 error 6 in libgtk-4.so.1.1400.4[56491c,77f7d74c7000+4c2000] likely on CPU 7 (core 3, socket 0)
[ 1403.146964] Code: c2 4c 8d 4d c0 48 8d 35 02 75 4a 00 45 31 c0 0f b6 d2 e8 c7 4c 01 00 f3 0f 10 03 48 8b 55 c0 4c 89 fe f3 41 0f 58 07 4c 89 f7 <f3> 0f 11 42 30 f3 0f 10 43 04 f3 41 0f 58 47 04 f3 0f 11 42 34 f3
[ 1408.104856] gnome-system-mo[5360]: segfault at 30 ip 00007c02762ec29e sp 00007ffc399829d0 error 6 in libgtk-4.so.1.1400.5[4ec29e,7c0275e81000+4b5000] likely on CPU 1 (core 1, socket 0)
[ 1408.104871] Code: 48 8d 35 c5 6f 62 00 45 31 c0 e8 fd 0f 01 00 48 8b 45 b0 48 8b 5d c0 4c 89 ff f3 41 0f 10 04 24 f3 0f 58 00 48 89 da 48 89 c6 <f3> 0f 11 43 30 f3 41 0f 10 44 24 04 f3 0f 58 40 04 f3 0f 11 43 34
[ 1434.535310] blackbox[5476]: segfault at 30 ip 00007d7ba0f6491c sp 00007ffcc9c2bfb0 error 6 in libgtk-4.so.1.1400.4[56491c,7d7ba0ac7000+4c2000] likely on CPU 4 (core 0, socket 0)
[ 1434.535318] Code: c2 4c 8d 4d c0 48 8d 35 02 75 4a 00 45 31 c0 0f b6 d2 e8 c7 4c 01 00 f3 0f 10 03 48 8b 55 c0 4c 89 fe f3 41 0f 58 07 4c 89 f7 <f3> 0f 11 42 30 f3 0f 10 43 04 f3 41 0f 58 47 04 f3 0f 11 42 34 f3
[ 1519.054496] tidal-hifi[5241]: segfault at 0 ip 0000776c9650bccc sp 00007ffce741f1a0 error 6 in libnvidia-glcore.so.560.35.03[b0bccc,776c95e00000+c00000] likely on CPU 1 (core 1, socket 0)
[ 1519.054505] Code: 41 0f 7e ce 89 fd 48 8b 80 80 00 00 00 c1 e2 12 66 41 0f 7e d5 48 b9 72 0e 05 a0 04 00 00 00 81 ca 00 0e 00 80 66 41 0f 7e dc <89> 10 48 83 c0 1c 48 89 48 e8 66 0f 7e 40 f0 66 0f 7e 48 f4 66 0f

After a restart, all apps run perfectly fine of course and I can do whatever I need to do, until they stop working again.

  • On one forum, someone was suggesting a problem with memory, so I memtested it hard — everything is fine

  • On another, the idea was to reinstall intel-ucode package, this unfortunately didn’t help neither

  • Finally, I’ve tried sudo pacman -Qnq | sudo pacman -S - because it was a suggestion somewhere too, no changes after that

My boat:

Arch Linux x86_64 / 6.10.9-arch1-2
Gnome 46.4 / Mutter (X11)
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ASUS Z97-PRO (Wi-Fi ac)
INTEL i7-4790 + NVIDIA GTX 1070 Ti

Big, fat thanks for your time!

Update: Idea from jrgd did the trick! I am still testing it, but so far, I can’t force anything to fail and everything seems to be working fine!

  • @foggy
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    4 days ago

    Have you tried reinstalling proton, or installing an older version of proton?

    One of a few things is happening

    when a game is calling upon proton, and this error is triggered, and your game crashes, it was either because

    1. Proton (or some affiliated process) reached out to memory at an address it doesn’t have permission to play with.

    2. Proton (or some affiliated process) reached out to memory at an address that makes no sense.

    3. Some kind of overflow error occured

    It was either a misconfig on your par, a new version compatibility issue, or a bug causing something in this stack to reach out to a nonsense memory location or causing a stack or buffer overflow, something like that.

    Things I’d try:

    Check Protons compatibility with your current kernel version.

    Check Proton/steamlogs for more info on what might be going on.

    If this problem is new and you recently upgraded… Consider rolling back.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      34 days ago

      No, anything proton related works fine, other apps start crashing when something using proton runs in the background or after it was running before.

      This problem keeps popping up all the time, thru multiple updates since I finished installing everything.

      I will check the logs.

      • @foggy
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        24 days ago

        Ah sorry, I misunderstood.