Steam won't open.

Goldroger · 2016-06-03 11:41:48

Hey guys, i have been trying to solve this problem since hours i have looked through a lot of forum posts, but none of them could help me.
When i open steam this is what is shown:

/home/batman/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
/home/batman/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
/home/batman/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1461972496)

And it seems that i am missing a few libraries.
The output of

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=".:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}" ldd $(file *|sed '/ELF/!d;s/:.*//g')|grep 'not found'|sort|uniq

is :

        libXcomposite.so.1 => not found
	libXinerama.so.1 => not found
	libXtst.so.6 => not found
	libasound.so.2 => not found
	libatk-1.0.so.0 => not found
	libcairo.so.2 => not found
	libcups.so.2 => not found
	libdbus-glib-1.so.2 => not found
	libgconf-2.so.4 => not found
	libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => not found
	libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => not found
	libnm-glib.so.4 => not found
	libnm-util.so.2 => not found
	libnspr4.so => not found
	libnss3.so => not found
	libnssutil3.so => not found
	libopenal.so.1 => not found
	libpango-1.0.so.0 => not found
	libpangocairo-1.0.so.0 => not found
	libpulse.so.0 => not found
	libsmime3.so => not found
	libudev.so.0 => not found

Are the libraries the reason steam is not opening?If thats the case, is there a way i can download these libraries?
Any help is appreciated!

Last edited by Goldroger (2016-06-03 13:59:58)

tritron4 · 2016-06-03 12:34:37

Try to install steam-libs aur

Goldroger · 2016-06-03 13:07:16

It worked for 2 minutes when i switched from lib32-mesa-libgl to lib32-nvidia-libgl.But then the same error continued.

Last edited by Goldroger (2016-06-03 14:01:24)

microcz · 2016-06-06 17:34:41

Same problem here, can't run steam because of error:

$ steam
Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
Running Steam on arch  64-bit
Steam/steam.sh: line 161: VERSION_ID: unbound variable
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)

I have already seen those old posts here, but they don't help. Moreover, steam-libs aur doesn't work too (it even can't be installed), because of error: failed retrieving file 'perl-xml-parser-2.44-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz'

Moondance · 2016-06-14 22:19:02

find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete

Last edited by Moondance (2016-06-14 22:20:26)

nicoulaj · 2016-06-25 13:32:39

Thank, it solved it for me. May be it should be somehow be included in the steam package ? (install time message, or manual cleanup command)

ooo · 2016-06-25 17:34:37

It is already explained in the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … ime_issues

Arch Linux

#1 2016-06-03 11:41:48

Steam won't open.

#2 2016-06-03 12:34:37

Re: Steam won't open.

#3 2016-06-03 13:07:16

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