Bug#867138: steam: When Steam is executed, my computer freezes completely

[Muttley Pearoak]

Package: steam
Version: 1.0.0.54-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I've made a fresh install of Debian Stretch and installed some programs that i
need, such as libreoffice, freecad, matlab, etc. One of these programs is the
game selling platform Steam.
When i've executed Steam, shortly my computer froze completely. My motivation
of a fresh install was the same problem, which happened after i've updated from
Jessie to Stretch.

At starters i thought it was something with the update, so i've decided to make
a fresh install.
Before installing Steam none happened, my computer was working without a hitch.
After installing the program and executing it my computer froze again!

I didn't find any kind of solution neither report of the same problem, so i'm
reporting a possible bug with Steam.

I hope we can find out what it is and prevent others from going through the
same issue. I hope i gave enough informations!

Sincerely,
Muttley Pearoak



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

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (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]            1.5.61
ii  libc6                            2.24-11+deb9u1
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                       6.3.0-18
ii  libtxc-dxtn-s2tc [libtxc-dxtn0]  1.0+git20151227-2
ii  libudev1                         232-25
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  libxss1                               1:1.2.2-1
ii  xfce4-terminal [x-terminal-emulator]  0.8.3-1
ii  xterm [x-terminal-emulator]           327-2
ii  zenity                                3.22.0-1+b1

Versions of packages steam suggests:
pn  steam-devices  <none>

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