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funnypigrun

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Registered: 2019-07-14

Posts: 15

Steam exiting without any error messages.

Today when I tried to start steam, it does not start anymore.

Tried to figure out why but steam seems to simply exit without any error messages

.steam $ DEBUGGER=lldb steam
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
WARNING: Using default/fallback debugger launch
lldb /home/shinjihoshino/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
(lldb) target create "/home/shinjihoshino/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam"
Current executable set to '/home/shinjihoshino/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' (i386).
(lldb) run
Process 16343 launched: '/home/shinjihoshino/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' (i386)
Process 16343 exited with status = 0 (0x00000000)
(lldb) ^D
.steam $

Things I have tried so far:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Update everything.

sudo pacman -Syu

3. Reset steam as instructed on the troubleshooting page.

steam --reset

4. Reinstall steam in the hopes that I just accidentally deleted something? Not likely but still.

sudo pacman -S steam

Nothing seems to work and I don't know what's wrong because steam won't tell me... Anybody got any ideas?

funnypigrun

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Registered: 2019-07-14

Posts: 15

Re: Steam exiting without any error messages.

Whoops. Figured it out right after posting.
For those who have a similar problem here is what I was doing wrong:

A few days ago, the Nvidia driver had been updated causing some kernel panics.
So I had Nvidia and all related packages downgraded to the versions they last worked.
But in my carelessness, I seemed to have forgotten to downgrade the `lib32-nvidia-settings` package. Downgrading it fixed the issue.