It appears to be crashing inside Steam's game overlay. Does the standalone version work for you? Have you updated Steam recently or made any changes to it?
Yep, looks like GABEN™ broke Steam on Linux. Again. gdb$ bt
#0 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
#1 0x00007ffff7bc0456 in ?? () from /home/xentec ...

Noice!
@Oxyd how many hours of pointer hunting did it take before checking the build process? ;D

For what it's worth I've managed to start a map with help of valgrind before the game gracefully crashed.
Log below. I've annotated some of my actions with "##### ".

Running with MALLOC_CHECK_=2 also didn't helped.

-- edit --
Using valgrind was able to achieve "cropping bitmaps".
==26987== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==26987== Copyright (C) 2002-2017, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==26987== Using Valgrind-3.13.0 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for ...

Loewchen wrote:Does anyone have this issue with a brand new installation?

Yep. Renamed .factorio folder, redownloaded the game (without Steam sync). Same results as seen above.

Edit:
So it looks like a case of misconfigured build server. Fixed in 0.16.1, which will be coming soon.


Game crashes while "Loading core... [2 %]" but also fails to generate a stack trace hence the freeze.
Had to use SIGKILL.

0.000 2017-12-13 13:48:32; Factorio 0.16.0 (build 34159, linux64 ...