Team Fortress 2 Segmentation Fault – Steam for Linux

After getting invited to join the Steam Beta for Linux, (after weeks of using the bypass) I decided to get playing some TF2. After the long install and download I booted it up. The Value splash screen with the tap-guy loads and the menu begins to load, but once it has finished, the game closed and returned to my desktop.

So I tried again, but this time ran steam through terminal in order to get some error messages. The following is what I found to occur when the game crashed:

response: CrashID=bp-ca59d62f-9c2b-47e4-8cd9-9d0b02121212
/home/alex/Steam/SteamApps/username/Team Fortress 2/hl2.sh: line 72: 4811 Segmentation fault ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"
Game removed: AppID 440 "Team Fortress 2", ProcID 4811
saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'
roaming config store 2 saved successfully

To fix it, there’s a pretty simple solution. This is to add the option “-nojoy” to the launch options of the game:

1. Right click Team Fortress 2 in the Library pane of Steam.
2. Click “Properties”.
3. Click “Set Launch Options”
4. Add the following: -nojoy
5. Hit OK and launch the game, everything should be working!

If you’re running Fedora, some folk have found another solution to this fix, if the previous doesn’t work:

sudo setsebool -P allow_execheap 1

Where it seems SELinux isn’t allowing the game to start for whatever reasons.