STEAM crashes when I press my bound party chat key.

[Death_By_Orange]

I had joined a friend's party and bound the 'U' key to talk to them with voice. Once I pressed it, it crashed Steam as a whole and I had to reopen it with a couple weird processes happening in the background that I didn't exactly catch.

I accidentally did it again when I reconnected to the game when, despite the fact I didn't actually use party chat, I hit the 'U' key while typing out a message in the All chat explaining what happened.

After I reconnected a second time, I unbound the Party Voice Chat key, then played and finished the game.

Match ID is 62663338, I did get banned for some amount of time after the game finished but that's not that important I think. I'm on Linux Mint 22.3 'Zena'. The fact that Steam crashed rather than just the game makes me think this is some networking issue.

Thanks for any help,
Death_By_Orange

 

[embers]

this is still an issue in the big 2026, fix the steam for linux client PLEASE valve

 

[uid65534]

Same issue but it only happens when pressing an unbound button on my mouse (G502X). Steam crashes and the game appears to freeze until it's manually killed.

The Steam crash gives `terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'` / SIGABRT, and the crash dumps got uploaded... somewhere. No correlation codes or anything.