X11 I/O error with nvidia 495.46-9

Since today, when starting Steam, the update modal shows up, but then the user is logged out;
the session crashes with X11 I/O error

Oddly, when starting steam via terminal there are no X11 I/O errors, however I noticed that one of the games didn’t start (crashes before any window is opened) that would usually start, while another started fine.

Occurs on up-to-date arch with extra/nvidia 495.46-9. First time I experience this issue.

Here’s the journal:

Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname audit[4212]: USER_END pid=4212 uid=0 auid=1000 ses=13 msg='op=PAM:session_close grantors=pam_loginuid,pam_keyinit,pam_systemd_home,pam_limits,pam_unix,pam_permit,pam_mail,pam_systemd,pam_env,pam_gnome_keyring acct>
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname kernel: audit: type=1113 audit(1642534430.823:345): pid=4212 uid=0 auid=1000 ses=13 msg='op=logout id=1000 exe="/usr/bin/lightdm" hostname=hostname addr=? terminal=/dev/tty7 res=success'
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname lightdm[4212]: pam_unix(lightdm:session): session closed for user <user>
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname audit[4212]: USER_LOGOUT pid=4212 uid=0 auid=1000 ses=13 msg='op=logout id=1000 exe="/usr/bin/lightdm" hostname=hostname addr=? terminal=/dev/tty7 res=success'
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname pulseaudio[4295]: X11 I/O error exit handler called, preparing to tear down X11 modules
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname pulseaudio[4295]: X11 I/O error handler called
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname at-spi-bus-launcher[4241]: X connection to :0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@5-8575-0.service: Consumed 1.023s CPU time.
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname audit[1]: SERVICE_STOP pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@5-8575-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=success'
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname kernel: audit: type=1131 audit(1642534430.783:344): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@5-8575-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=suc>
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname systemd[1]: systemd-coredump@5-8575-0.service: Deactivated successfully.
Jan 18 20:33:50 hostname systemd-coredump[8577]: [?] Process 4130 (Xorg) of user 0 dumped core.
                                                
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                                                Stack trace of thread 4130:
                                                #0  0x00007fd82badcd22 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3cd22)
                                                #1  0x00007fd82bac6862 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x26862)
                                                #2  0x00005576e12459b0 OsAbort (Xorg + 0x1539b0)
                                                #3  0x00005576e12474f5 FatalError (Xorg + 0x1554f5)
                                                #4  0x00005576e124ceca n/a (Xorg + 0x15aeca)
                                                #5  0x00007fd82bc8b870 n/a (libpthread.so.0 + 0x13870)
                                                
                                                Stack trace of thread 4160:
                                                #0  0x00007fd82bc8a600 __lll_lock_wait (libpthread.so.0 + 0x12600)
                                                #1  0x00007fd82bc83580 __pthread_mutex_lock (libpthread.so.0 + 0xb580)
                                                #2  0x00005576e123ae05 n/a (Xorg + 0x148e05)
                                                #3  0x00005576e12455e1 n/a (Xorg + 0x1535e1)
                                                #4  0x00005576e1241629 n/a (Xorg + 0x14f629)
                                                #5  0x00007fd82bc81259 start_thread (libpthread.so.0 + 0x9259)
                                                #6  0x00007fd82bb9e5e3 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0xfe5e3)
                                                ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Successfully made thread 8580 of process 4295 owned by '1000' RT at priority 5.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname root[8581]: ACPI group/action undefined: jack/videoout / VIDEOOUT
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 5 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname root[8578]: ACPI group/action undefined: jack/lineout / LINEOUT
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1642534429.723:343): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump@5-8575-0 comm="systemd" exe="/usr/lib/systemd/systemd" hostname=? addr=? terminal=? res=suc>
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                                                Stack trace of thread 4130:
                                                #0  0x00007fd82badcd22 raise (libc.so.6 + 0x3cd22)
                                                #1  0x00007fd82bac6862 abort (libc.so.6 + 0x26862)
                                                #2  0x00005576e12459b0 OsAbort (Xorg + 0x1539b0)
                                                #3  0x00005576e12474f5 FatalError (Xorg + 0x1554f5)
                                                #4  0x00005576e124ceca n/a (Xorg + 0x15aeca)
                                                #5  0x00007fd82bc8b870 n/a (libpthread.so.0 + 0x13870)
                                                
                                                Stack trace of thread 4160:
                                                #0  0x00007fd82bc8a600 __lll_lock_wait (libpthread.so.0 + 0x12600)
                                                #1  0x00007fd82bc83580 __pthread_mutex_lock (libpthread.so.0 + 0xb580)
                                                #2  0x00005576e123ae05 n/a (Xorg + 0x148e05)
                                                #3  0x00005576e12455e1 n/a (Xorg + 0x1535e1)
                                                #4  0x00005576e1241629 n/a (Xorg + 0x14f629)
                                                #5  0x00007fd82bc81259 start_thread (libpthread.so.0 + 0x9259)
                                                #6  0x00007fd82bb9e5e3 __clone (libc.so.6 + 0xfe5e3)
                                                ELF object binary architecture: AMD x86-64
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Successfully made thread 8580 of process 4295 owned by '1000' RT at priori>
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname root[8581]: ACPI group/action undefined: jack/videoout / VIDEOOUT
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 5 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname root[8578]: ACPI group/action undefined: jack/lineout / LINEOUT
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname kernel: audit: type=1130 audit(1642534429.723:343): pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=429496729>
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1642534429.723:342): prog-id=52 op=LOAD
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1642534429.723:341): prog-id=51 op=LOAD
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname kernel: audit: type=1334 audit(1642534429.723:340): prog-id=50 op=LOAD
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 8575/UID 0).
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname audit[1]: SERVICE_START pid=1 uid=0 auid=4294967295 ses=4294967295 msg='unit=systemd-coredump>
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname audit: BPF prog-id=52 op=LOAD
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname audit: BPF prog-id=51 op=LOAD
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname audit: BPF prog-id=50 op=LOAD
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname acpid[600]: client 4130[0:0] has disconnected
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname acpid[600]: client 4130[0:0] has disconnected
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname kernel: audit: type=1701 audit(1642534429.713:339): auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 ses=429496729>
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname audit[4130]: ANOM_ABEND auid=4294967295 uid=0 gid=0 ses=4294967295 pid=4130 comm="Xorg" exe=">
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname root[8573]: ACPI group/action undefined: jack/videoout / VIDEOOUT
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname root[8571]: ACPI group/action undefined: jack/lineout / LINEOUT
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 6 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Successfully made thread 8554 of process 8502 owned by '1000' high priorit>
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 5 threads of 3 processes of 1 users.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Successfully made thread 8552 of process 8502 owned by '1000' high priorit>
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.
Jan 18 20:33:49 hostname rtkit-daemon[925]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 1 users.