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nphuracm

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From: China

Registered: 2022-07-16

Posts: 60

Steam Client fails silently

I have an Arch install located on a portable hard drive. Rootfs medium is portable so as less device-specific config as possible.
So now I have been encountering a weird problem. On some occasions, the Steam client would fail to start, but with no relevant error messages - not even exit codes - at all. The steam scripts just exit silently:

nphuracm@nphuracm-Ringo ~> steam
steam.sh[5298]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[5298]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[5372]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[5298]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

nphuracm@nphuracm-Ringo ~> steam-native
steam.sh[14531]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[14531]: STEAM_RUNTIME is disabled by the user
steam.sh[14531]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway

The $HOME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam process does sustain after that... and nothing else. No backtrace from gdb or so.
It is unknown what changes could lead to this problem, but currently I'm witnessing this happen after removing a discrete AMD GPU from an 7th Gen Intel Core comp and using the IGD instead.

plma

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Registered: 2023-07-07

Posts: 11

Re: Steam Client fails silently

What GPU are you using? Which driver did you install?

nphuracm

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From: China

Registered: 2022-07-16

Posts: 60

Re: Steam Client fails silently

It could vary actually.
I have seen this happen on Radeon R7s (integrated and discrete) with amdgpu and Intel HD530/HD5000 with i915.

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,213

Re: Steam Client fails silently

What filesystem is the stream library using on the portable drive ?

Are these games running through Proton ?
Proton stores wineprefixes and related files in a compdata folder. back it up (it can contain savefiles created by apps), then empty it.
Does this help ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2023-07-09 11:16:41)

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nphuracm

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From: China

Registered: 2022-07-16

Posts: 60

Re: Steam Client fails silently

What filesystem is the stream library using on the portable drive ?

Are these games running through Proton ?
Proton stores wineprefixes and related files in a compdata folder. back it up (it can contain savefiles created by apps), then empty it.
Does this help ?

f2fs.
Games work fine; problem's with Steam Client.