Several games don't launch anymore from steam client

[ghost]

EDIT: This seems to apply to other games as well, but only games that use Steam achievements.

EDIT2: A steam restart fixed my problem. Still, this can not be intended behaviour!?

Here is the result for dungeons of dredmor.

Launching from the steam client does launch the binary, however the game never opens. Using "ps ax" I can see that the process is still running.

Launching manually from the game's directory does still work, but then it is not possible to unlock any achievements.

Here is the backtrace after attaching gdb to the running process:

(gdb) bt
#0  0xf77c0425 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
#1  0xf741f661 in recv () from /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
#2  0xf4162ead in ?? () from /home/scrawl/.steam/bin32/steamclient.so
#3  0xf415fc3b in ?? () from /home/scrawl/.steam/bin32/steamclient.so
#4  0xf416130f in ?? () from /home/scrawl/.steam/bin32/steamclient.so
#5  0xf4155752 in ?? () from /home/scrawl/.steam/bin32/steamclient.so
#6  0xf4398cc3 in ?? () from /home/scrawl/.steam/bin32/steamclient.so
#7  0xf4399769 in ?? () from /home/scrawl/.steam/bin32/steamclient.so
#8  0xf42c4cdf in ?? () from /home/scrawl/.steam/bin32/steamclient.so
#9  0xf7633a79 in ?? () from ./x86/libsteam_api.so
#10 0xf7633f82 in SteamAPI_Init () from ./x86/libsteam_api.so
#11 0x0814cea1 in main (argc=1, argv=0xff91a9e4) at /var/lib/jenkins/jobs/Dredmor_Linux_RELEASE/workspace/main.cpp:803

    About steam : Built: Feb 8 2013, at 16:59:49



Processor Information:
    Vendor:  AuthenticAMD
    Speed: 3200 Mhz
    4 logical processors
    4 physical processors
    HyperThreading:  Unsupported
    FCMOV:  Supported
    SSE2:  Supported
    SSE3:  Supported
    SSSE3:  Supported
    SSE4a:  Supported
    SSE41:  Unsupported
    SSE42:  Unsupported

Network Information:
    Network Speed:  

Operating System Version:
    Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (64 bit)
    Kernel Name:  Linux
    Kernel Version:  3.2.0-37-generic
    X Server vendor:  The X.Org Foundation
    X Server release:  11103000

Video Card:
    Driver:  NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

    Driver Version:  4.3.0 NVIDIA 310.14
    Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
    Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
    VendorID:  0x10de
    DeviceID:  0x1200
    Number of Monitors:  1
    Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
    Primary Display Resolution:  1680 x 1050
    Desktop Resolution: 1680 x 1050
    Primary Display Size: 18,66" x 11,65"  (21,97" diag)
                                            47,4cm x 29,6cm  (55,8cm diag)
    Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
    Primary VRAM: 1023 MB
    Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
    Audio device: CMI8786

Memory:
    RAM:  7986 Mb

Miscellaneous:
    UI Language:  English
    LANG:  en_US.UTF-8
    Microphone:  Not set
    Total Hard Disk Space Available:  1489004 Mb
    Largest Free Hard Disk Block:  681636 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:

[johnv-valve]

If you can reproduce this state, can you do a "kill -11 pidof steam" This will cause steam to send us a crashdump and if you send us the crashID we can see what the steam process is doing. Sounds like it was wedged somewhere.