I looked at this again today (now with 1.1.109), found this in the journal:


Jul 06 19:33:40 roxide steam[3657]: chdir "/home/ben/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio"
Jul 06 19:33:40 roxide steam[3657]: ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ben/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so ...

Reinstalled Factorio in Steam, no change. Updated Manjaro to its latest release, no change except the version number in the log file:


0.000 2024-06-14 19:12:00; Factorio 1.1.104 (build 62119, linux64, steam)
0.115 Operating system: Linux (ManjaroLinux 24.0.2)
0.000 Initializing Steam API.
0 ...

I've moved ~/.factorio away, and let it create a new one, to rule out any problems in there (disabled Steam cloud first so it didn't download anything old back into there).

I've reproduced this (on the same device) with both an Nvidia 1070Ti thunderbolt eGPU, and Intel integrated graphics. It doesn't seem GPU-related but it's not in the log file so I thought I'd mention it for completeness.

When I launch the game through Steam, the "Play" button cycles to "Launching" then back to "Play", and the game doesn't launch. When I launch the standalone executable:


$ ./factorio
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) ./factorio


This happens on every launch attempt. It's immediate:


$ time ...

Regarding the suggestion of combining station names when they're close together and have the same name - I've made a mockup of how I'd imagine this looking. The top stations show the suggestion and the bottom stations show the current behaviour.