Steam bricks Nextcloud Clients Sync-DB

📱 Desktop & mobile clients 💻 Desktop
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When installing Steam alongside Nextcloud, Steam does something that messes with Nextcloud which causes it to crash and eat all of the Ram up. I can provide any further Logs (except Steam, ill have to spin up a VM for it since i don’t want to deal with that hell on my main pc right now).
OS: Fedora 42 Minimal Install
All was Updated at that time.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Download Steam and Nextcloud Desktop Client
  2. Run Steam.
  3. Run Nextcloud
  4. Wait a few seconds
  5. Nextcloud crashes and starts devouring Ram like its never seen it before
  6. PC Freezes and crashes or restarts DE (Gnome kills Nextcloud automatically)
  7. Issue seems to be Steam doing something that causes the DB in apps like these to get corrupted. Deleting said DB restores functionality for a few seconds until it fails again.
    On a System without Steam, everything runs fine.
    (The DB in question is the Sync DB)
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Hi @Shardboii

I’m not sure if this will help, or if there is a definitive solution to that issue, but — if you’re syncing your entire home directory and/or the Steam folder — perhaps don’t do that?! Or, at least, try excluding the Steam folder from the sync.

I also found the following issues on GitHub…

https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues/4646

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/12276

More issues that contain the term “steam” that are maybe worth reading:

https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/issues?q=steam

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Thats the thing.. im not syncing any Large Directories containing applications nor Steam directories. Steam itself, without interacting with Nextcloud files singlehandedly bricks Nextcloud.
I will try using Steam again and report what happens