I’m getting a weird issue with steam on my desktop running endeavourOS with qtile, where steam starts and then immediately closes. I’ve been trying to figure out why this happens, but all of the solutions I could find from googling errors have said to uninstall xdg-desktop-portal or flatpak, but neither of those things worked for me, nor did running steam with the -no-cef-sandbox or -vgui. It’s also worth noting that steam boots perfectly fine on my laptop (endeavourOS + KDE).
Here’s the result from running steam:
steam.sh[60179]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[60179]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[60253]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[60179]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Startup - updater built Jun 21 2023 21:17:38
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
07/09 12:18:01 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1687386907)/tid(60314)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] 1. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Checking for update on startup
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Checking for available updates...
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Downloading manifest: http://media.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Manifest download: send request
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Manifest download: finished
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1687386907, installed version 1687386907, existing pending version 0
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Nothing to do
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Verifying installation...
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Verification complete
(process:60314): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:18:02.475: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
(process:60314): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:18:02.475: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xec817db0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xec816500
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
Loaded SDL version 3.0.0-1782-g214d5daa3
(steam:60314): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:18:02.549: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
(steam:60314): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:18:02.549: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1090: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
/usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/gtk-2.0/apps.rc:91: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[60356]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[60356]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
Failed to init SteamVR because it isn't installed
Assertion 'device' failed at src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c:103, function device_get_tags_generation(). Aborting.
crash_20230709121803_27.dmp[60547]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20230709121803_27.dmp
/home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 798: 60314 Aborted (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20230709121803_27.dmp[60547]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20230709121803_27.dmp[60547]: response: CrashID=bp-84664b98-84d4-4b31-8857-26fff2230709
crash_20230709121803_27.dmp[60547]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20230709121803_27.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-84664b98-84d4-4b31-8857-26fff2230709''
Edit: Also not sure if there’s a better community to ask this in since this one seems to be mostly about news, I can ask elsewhere if this is the wrong community for debugging/help questions
Edit 2: I realized I didn’t specify, but my system has a Ryzen 7 5700x/RX 5700XT so it isn’t an issue with Nvidia drivers
Edit 3: Not sure why I put “Arch” in the title, just realized the mistake and fixed it. I’m on EndeavourOS, which is arch-based but obviously not the same thing.
Final Edit: Thanks for the help everyone! Installing the lib32-libnm package fixed it for me. If that doesn’t work for others, maybe try installing the flatpak version of steam, since that version was launching for me also
See this issue.
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9805
I just did the suggested workaround and that worked. It also seems that installing lib32-libnm is probably a better fix, I’ll try that when I get home today.
Installing lib32-libnm ended up fixing it!
How exactly did you install steam? Maybe delete the files and try installing it from a difference source.
I just installed it through pacman. I’m contemplating moving over to the flatpak version but I really don’t want to have to redownload all of my games
You don’t have to redownload all your games. I just switched to the flatpak this past month, here’s what I did:
Leave steam installed natively, install the flatpak alongside it, using flatpak steam, open the root of the library folder (should be steamapps), then find the corresponding folder from the native install and recursively hardlink all the files from the native install’s steamapps folder to the flatpak’s steamapps folder. Quit steam and reopen and all your games should be detected.
It’ll need to “update” basically all of them for at least a second to verify the files and it might need to re-process Vulkan shaders, but that’s it.
how do I hardlink files? I’ve been using linux for a few years but I’ve never really used links before for files. This seems to be the best strategy because everything else hasn’t worked so far
cp -lr <src> <target>
That command should do it
cp is the copy paste CLI tool. -l (it’s a lowercase L) flag tells it to make a hard link instead of a second copy of the data itself on the disk. The -r flag tells it to recurse, so “do this copy operation on everything in every folder under the top level directory I hand you to copy”
Thanks for this! I ended up fixing the local steam install (ended up being a network manager problem with steam) but I’ll keep this in mind because I’ll probably want to switch to the flatpak version in the future anyway
Eh, honestly, since Steam updates itself you’re probably fine without the flatpak unless you have a reason to need it.
Glad you enjoyed the arch experience! How fun was it to waste time debugging this?
At least it got fixed eventually this time. Ricing tiling window managers for random seemingly small things is hard 😭
But arch never breaks!
You know, archlinux has an install script that’s pretty easy to run nowadays, you should try it, that way you won’t feel the bitter taste of prior failures as strongly as you do now
LOL - I used Arch for 7 years.
Just install the lib32-libnm package. The one Steam is supplying is outdated with the new libgudev 238-1, by installing your own lib32-libnm your system will use that over Steams one and it should launch fine.
This fixed it, thanks for the help!
NVIDIA GPU was going to be my guess as well.
It could be related to this issue: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9805
Edit: Might be an issue with a recent libgudev update. The end of this comment has some potential work arounds: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9805#issuecomment-1626486059
Installing the lib32-libnm package ended up fixing the issue
There’s currently a known bug with nvidia and steam, might be what you’re having. See https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9634 There’s some workarounds there that worked for me
Nvidia GPU I’m assuming? Make sure
nvidia(ornvidia-dkms),nvidia-utilsandlib32-nvidia-utilshave the same version and are up to date. This issue is listed in the Arch Wiki see if it’s helpful for you.Unfortunately I’m on an AMD GPU :(
Try running these commands
mv ~/.local/share/Steam ~/SteamBackup
mv ~/.steam ~/SteamBackup steam
Then launch steam by disabling direct write
steam -no-dwrite
Ended up getting the same crash
Did you check if you have any conflicting libraries?
You can also try replacing the steam folder with the one on your laptop. If that doesn’t work it’s a problem with the OS on your PC. If you can’t trace it back you might want to reinstall the distro. Just back up your files
Apparently it was a problem with their network manager library, installing
lib32-libnmended up fixing it for me. (I’m assuming my laptop already had that installed as a dependency for something else or as part of the default KDE install)I’m glad everything works now
Oh. Can you launch games using the commandline? I don’t know how this works but I was having same issue with Nvidia and I launched a game with command line and it started working. It probably was a coincidence but it’s worth trying I guess.
Looks like no because it’s still trying to open steam when I try to run the games.
Oh nvm then. Was worth a try. Anyways I see you solved it. Happy gaming! :)
