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vishvas

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Registered: 2018-03-22

Posts: 5

Steam hangs on "Installing breakpad exception handler for appid..."

Steam hangs on "Installing breakpad exception handler for appid..." after the below. Any tips?

$ sudo pacman -Qq | grep nvidia
lib32-nvidia-utils
nvidia-dkms
nvidia-utils
$ ldd ~/.steam/bin/steam
	linux-gate.so.1 (0xf7eec000)
	libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libX11.so.6 (0xf796b000)
	librt.so.1 => /usr/lib32/librt.so.1 (0xf7961000)
	libm.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf789d000)
	libdl.so.2 => /usr/lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7898000)
	libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 (0xf771d000)
	libpthread.so.0 => /usr/lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf76fe000)
	libc.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf752b000)
	libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 (0xf7501000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /usr/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7eee000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xf74e5000)
	libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXau.so.6 (0xf74e0000)
	libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib32/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xf74d9000)
$ steam -windowed
/home/vvasuki/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 154: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/vvasuki/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 154: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
/home/vvasuki/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 154: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)

Last edited by vishvas (2018-04-06 21:36:26)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,659

Re: Steam hangs on "Installing breakpad exception handler for appid..."

Start with installing steam-native-runtime and using the steam-native command to start Steam. If that works, then it's simply some incompatibility with the shipped steam library and you should simply run steam with steam-native instead.

vishvas

Member

Registered: 2018-03-22

Posts: 5

Re: Steam hangs on "Installing breakpad exception handler for appid..."

It turns out that opening the Steam (runtime) shortcut on desktop worked fine after restarting computer.