The bug does now seem to have been fixed, in the newly released 0.15.1 version. Awesome!

Just go into your Steam settings and disable "Enable Steam Cloud synchronization for applications which support it". Not sure what it has to do with that, but this will help until it is fixed. Medic I had the same error, turning off the cloud sync did the trick. Hope this is fixed soon be...

Edit: Disabling Steam Cloud sync does seem to be a valid workaround. Actually my Steam for Linux doesn't have the option to disable steam cloud for the specific application. For me though disabling it globally did the trick as well. Yes, that's indeed what I did to make it work. Thanks for the clar...

I'm also experiencing the same (or at least a similar) issue. The game crashed on start. Here's my latest Factorio error log: https://uploads.timvisee.com/shutter/factorio-current.log I'm running an Ubuntu 17.04 x64 machine and updated the game to 0.15.x from 0.14.23. That, with 16GB RAM, an i5-4670...