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I installed steam fine, and it has been working, but just now every time I load it, after I get the main steam menu loaded it kills itself. Any suggestions? (id really like to play trackmania :p)

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Ubuntu 8.10
Gnome
I installed steam fine, and it has been working, but just now every time I load it, after I get the main steam menu loaded it kills itself
HP Pavillion dv6000 series laptop

When I run playonlinux from the terminal, it loads playonlinux fine. But that isnt my problem, the problem is with an installed program not playonlinux

Edited by lopez

I installed steam fine, and it has been working, but just now every time I load it, after I get the main steam menu loaded it kills itself

If it worked before then maybe you should consider reinstallation

When I run playonlinux from the terminal, it loads playonlinux fine.

That is no doubt. Run playonlinux from terminal and then start a game and see what is in it when steam kills itself.

chris@chris-laptop-ubuntu:~$ playonlinux steam
PlayOnLinux v3.4

Checking python :                     [ Ok ]
Running Steam
CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . .
CellID: CSDS returned 172 servers.
CellID: Connecting to 123.130.123.249:27031. . .
CellID: Connect to 123.130.123.249:27031 took 292 MS
CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 14 MS
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb
Corrupt JPEG data: 57 extraneous bytes before marker 0xdb


and this is where it dies

so you've got many "Corrupt JPEG data" I don't know if it is right with steam IMHO it's shoudn't be there so on your place i would try to reinstall steam.

I reinstalled it, and still crashes

It's hard to advise something. Do other 3d games work? Did you tried Settings->System and then 3D test to be sure it isn't video drivers isue?