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#1 2016-02-17 21:19:13

XanderM
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Steam wont start, libgl errors.

Steam wont start, giving the errors:

/home/archie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/archie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
/home/archie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

So I checked the wiki and I ran the dynamic link/run command they provided, that did seem to change the error somewhat...but now there are new errors in its place.

/home/archie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/archie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
/home/archie/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast


Having that not work, I moved on to the next command :

find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" \) -print -delete

Which results in:

find: `/root/.steam/root/': No such file or directory

I dont know what to do or try now. I really like the archlinux mentality and community, however the distro itsself seems to be such a pain XD

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#2 2016-02-18 00:08:55

XanderM
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

Nearly 50 views and nobody has an answer?

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#3 2016-02-18 00:32:00

Ziusudra
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

Did you enable the multilib repository, like it says in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#Installation?

Did you also install the multilib version of your graphics driver, like it also says?

Because it's not even trying to load your graphics driver.

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#4 2016-02-18 00:33:40

jasonwryan
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

XanderM wrote:

Nearly 50 views and nobody has an answer?

Don't do that: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … te#Bumping


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#5 2016-02-18 00:35:26

Ziusudra
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

XanderM wrote:

Having that not work, I moved on to the next command :

find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" \) -print -delete

Which results in:

find: `/root/.steam/root/': No such file or directory

Did you maybe leave the '~' tilde out of that command? If not, something is wrong with your system.

Edit: nevermind, you're trying to run that command as root, don't do that.

Last edited by Ziusudra (2016-02-18 00:41:30)

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#6 2016-02-19 18:16:07

izberion
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

Do you have nvidia drivers installed?

I had this exact same problem. I solved it but fixing the libGL symlink. For some reason /usr/lib32/libGL.so.* linked up to the mesa libgl. I just changed the link from there to /usr/lib32/nvidia/libGL.so.1.0.0.

Last edited by izberion (2016-02-19 18:16:24)

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#7 2016-02-19 20:37:27

mrunion
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

@izberion: That sounds like very bad advice to me....

If the packages are installed correctly for the nvidia driver and multilib is properly enabled, All this should be handled by the package installs I believe. I think if this ends up being the issue I would take a step back and make sure that all the packages on the system relating to this issue were installed correctly, and that the nVidia drivers weren't installed from some other location.

Last edited by mrunion (2016-02-19 20:42:20)


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#8 2016-02-20 10:03:39

izberion
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

mrunion wrote:

@izberion: That sounds like very bad advice to me....

If the packages are installed correctly for the nvidia driver and multilib is properly enabled, All this should be handled by the package installs I believe. I think if this ends up being the issue I would take a step back and make sure that all the packages on the system relating to this issue were installed correctly, and that the nVidia drivers weren't installed from some other location.

Considering that the first thing I tried was reinstalling both the nvidia drivers and mesa, I assume they installed correctly. No amount of uninstall/reinstall would fix this error for me. The only thing that did it was fixing the symlink manually. It only happened after the 361.28 nvidia driver was released (along with all the other problems the *-1 release caused many users)

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#9 2016-03-29 23:03:37

MLG_Sinon
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

Give output of

STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam

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#10 2016-03-30 16:44:31

Zaxth
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Re: Steam wont start, libgl errors.

I had the exact same problem earlier. I solved it by installing lib32-nvidia-libgl also check libglvnd.

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