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Team Fortress 2 crashes on startup

After updating mesa to the latest version (commit a7877289), several older source games fail to launch in native mode (Steam runtime) with this error:

src/tcmalloc.cc:278] Attempt to free invalid pointer 0x9183ad0
./hl2.sh: line 72:  7117 Aborted                 ${GAME_DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} "$@"

This error also occurs in Half-Life 2 Deathmatch and source mods (like Entropy: Zero 2), yet it doesn't occur in HL2 (all episodes), L4D2 and CS: GO.

  • CPU AMD Ryzen 5 2600X
  • GPU AMD RX 6700 XT
  • Mesa 23.0.x (built from commit a7877289)
  • Linux 6.2.8
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