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rocktone

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Steam is broken in Arch

Hi everyone,

has anyone ever gotten this weird bug in Steam? I have tried googling to no avail.

Basically, Steam never renders anything more than a broken login screen and that's all. See below

http://i.imgur.com/uhels2l.png

Thanks

Last edited by jasonwryan (2016-06-05 21:26:58)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

I have tried googling to no avail

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … dler....22

Try harder

Also, please post actual text (using code tags) rather than pictures of text.

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rocktone

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From: Central Florida, USA

Registered: 2015-01-03

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

I have tried googling to no avail

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … dler....22

Try harder

Also, please post actual text (using code tags) rather than pictures of text.

I have found that. Unfortunately it didn't seem to fix my problem. The drivers and the libraries are currently synchronized.

The reason I uploaded a picture is because it is the best way to illustrate what Steam is doing.

Last edited by rocktone (2016-06-05 21:19:06)

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

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rocktone

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From: Central Florida, USA

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

Read the Code of Conduct and only post thumbnails http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cod … s_and_code

Thank you, in the future I will make sure to do that.

rocktone

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From: Central Florida, USA

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

Anyone know anything? I would prefer to not have to completely reinstall my Arch system just for this.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

The white rectangle with unrelated black and red text is probably the "broken loginscreen" ?

What command are you using to start steam?
what is the full output of that command ?

What makes you think re-installing arch will fix this problem ?

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rocktone

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From: Central Florida, USA

Registered: 2015-01-03

Posts: 17

Re: Steam is broken in Arch

The white rectangle with unrelated black and red text is probably the "broken loginscreen" ?

Yes, that is the broken login screen.

What command are you using to start steam?

The command is just steam in the terminal.

what is the full output of that command ?

 
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 72: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 72: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 80: saw unknown, expected number
[0606/114739:ERROR:main_delegate.cc(779)] Could not load cef_extensions.pak
[0606/114739:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(217)] Running without the SUID sandbox! See https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/linux_suid_sandbox_development.md for more information on developing with the sandbox on.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20160429221814)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1461968294)
[0606/114739:ERROR:main_delegate.cc(779)] Could not load cef_extensions.pak
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20160429221814)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Created shared memory when not owner SteamController_Shared_mem
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)\
Generating new string page texture 7: 128x256, total string texture memory is 131.07 KB
Generating new string page texture 8: 48x256, total string texture memory is 180.22 KB
Generating new string page texture 9: 256x256, total string texture memory is 442.37 KB
Generating new string page texture 10: 64x256, total string texture memory is 507.90 KB

 

What makes you think re-installing arch will fix this problem ?

Because Steam does work on my other machine at home that is also running Arch. Also, I think that what happened was that I enabled multilib_testing but not core/community testing. When I disabled multilib testing, I thought it would fix the issue, but it did not.

This machine is unique in that it really is a server with 32cores (two discrete Intel Xeons).

I appreciate all the help you guys have given me so far, I really do. Thank you!

essence-of-foo

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

It seems plausible that it is a problem with multilib. But just disabling multilib_testing won't help because the old stuff is still installed. My guess is that you need to uninstall all (relevant) packages from multilib_testing to solve this problem.

Last edited by essence-of-foo (2016-06-06 16:40:58)

rocktone

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From: Central Florida, USA

Registered: 2015-01-03

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

It seems plausible that it is a problem with multilib. But just disabling multilib_testing won't help because the old stuff is still installed. My guess is that you need to uninstall all (relevant) packages from multilib_testing to solve this problem.

I just tried that. I commented multilib_testing and then ran pacman -Syyuu and I still have the same problem.
Unless there's something else that I need to do that I'm not aware of.

rocktone

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

Sorry for bumping, but I really need help resolving this!
Thanks!

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

Did you check your logs from the downgrade?

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rocktone

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From: Central Florida, USA

Registered: 2015-01-03

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

Did you check your logs from the downgrade?

I actually went4 ahead and completely reinstalled Arch Linux.

Only to run into the same issue...

Now I'm completely at loss for what to do.

essence-of-foo

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Re: Steam is broken in Arch

Weird... Does anyone here know which grapical toolkit steam uses? Is it Qt? It would be good to know if this really a steam-specific problem or if it is a toolkit problem.

Have you installed any of the packages that are specific to your graphics card?:

$ pacman -Si steam
[...]
Optional Deps   : lib32-mesa-dri: for open source driver users
                  lib32-catalyst-utils: for AMD Catalyst users
                  lib32-nvidia-utils: for NVIDIA proprietary blob users
                  lib32-alsa-plugins: for pulseaudio on some games