I figured I would come in and update this thread with a solution.

Running Steam from the following preload solves the issue entirely:
' LD_PRELOAD="/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libasound.so.2" steam

Based on the amount of recent posts I've seen about lib ...

Thank you for changing the format from Quote to Code.

Here are the dumps from the Steam binary crash

https://pastebin.com/JpHGvPFP (assert_20180116151545_8.dmp)
https://pastebin.com/BMMixqsJ (crash_20180116161646_6.dmp)

There is another one but it is too big for pastebin. I have attached it ...

Reproducible.

Here is what I do:

I start Steam up and then launch Factorio. If I go to load a game, the screen hangs for about 5-7 seconds and then the application exits with no error code or message. Steam is also terminated.
This is also the case when a game moves to autosave. There is a brief ...