Steam silently crashing on startup

kinkinkijkin · 2014-07-16 05:34:44

Title sums it up. I go to run steam and it just doesn't run. Nothing's dumped into the terminal, either. It just fails.

Any ideas as to what might be going on?

If it matters, running x86_64 Arch on an Athlon II X2 220 that I've tortured into submission, on a UEFI motherboard, installed as if it were an older motherboard (windows doesn't like it when my second boot tries to be special without it).

EDIT: conjecture, possibly dwm? I'm using dwm. Don't know if that makes a difference, really.

Last edited by kinkinkijkin (2014-07-16 05:35:37)

kinkinkijkin · 2014-07-17 00:05:47

Okay, I actually figured out what was wrong with this. I kept accidentally running steam as root and then pkilling it as my user.

Now I have a different problem that just comes down to the fact that I didn't configure my user properly; I can't startx as my user, so steam can't connect to X. That shouldn't be too hard to fix.

emeres · 2014-07-17 00:09:31

kinkinkijkin wrote:

I didn't configure my user properly; I can't startx as my user

What do you mean by that? What is the error message? Post the content of ~/.xinitrc.

kinkinkijkin · 2014-07-17 00:43:07

No error message. Just instantly closed every time.

But I figured it out now. Launch X as root, launch dwm as user, then I don't run into steam not wanting to start.

Also, I don't have an ~/.xinitrc.

emeres · 2014-07-17 09:23:13

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

kinkinkijkin wrote:

Also, I don't have an ~/.xinitrc.

There is a template in /etc/skel/.xinitrc. Start your dwm from there.
Read the wiki and manuals on this:

man startx

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