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telis80

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Registered: 2015-03-26

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Steam does not start!

Hey, i am having trouble with steam, trying to fix it for the past few days but can't get it solved. I get an error when i try to start steam, a box saying,

 Fatal Error: Failed to load steamui.so 

The command i am using to run it is

 vblank_mode=0 optirun -b primus steam 

Any help is welcome!

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JohnBobSmith

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Registered: 2014-11-29

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Re: Steam does not start!

A quick search turned up the following: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=157825

Basically, re-install steam. Do not delete anything, especially the steamapps folder! If you don't wish to move/rename stuff, you can also try a steam --reset in terminal and see what that does.

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telis80

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Re: Steam does not start!

already found this, does not work! did it several times

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JohnBobSmith

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Re: Steam does not start!

Do you have all the required 32 bit dependencies? What does pacman -Qi steam show?

EDIT:
Does your graphics card also have the 32 bit drivers? You may also wish to check the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/St … leshooting

In my case, after a fairly recent update, I had to change my startup command to the following: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libudev.so.1 STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam-native steam  to get steam working again, though this was for a different error. YMMV.

Last edited by JohnBobSmith (2016-11-03 11:47:03)

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telis80

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Re: Steam does not start!

This is the output of

pacman -Qi steam

Name            : steam
Version         : 1.0.0.53-1
Description     : Valve's digital software delivery system
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : http://steampowered.com/
Licenses        : custom
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : bash  desktop-file-utils  hicolor-icon-theme  curl  dbus
                  freetype2  gdk-pixbuf2  ttf-font  zenity  lib32-libgl
                  lib32-gcc-libs  lib32-libx11  lib32-libxss
                  lib32-alsa-plugins
Optional Deps   : steam-native-runtime: steam native runtime support
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 2.69 MiB
Packager        : Levente Polyak <anthraxx@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Thu 20 Oct 2016 10:58:35 PM EEST
Install Date    : Thu 03 Nov 2016 12:12:09 PM EET
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

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JohnBobSmith

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Re: Steam does not start!

Hm. Nothing obviously off with that. See my above edits. Something to try: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib32/libudev.so.1 STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam-native steam. What does this do?

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Re: Steam does not start!

Just an FYI, running 'STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam-native steam' is ridiculously redundant -- 'steam-native' by itself sets STEAM_RUNTIME and execs 'steam'. I imagine the preload isn't necessary either, since STEAM_RUNTIME=0 tells steam not to use it's bundled libs.

@telis80: does

optirun glxgears -info

work? Post the output it initially generates.

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JohnBobSmith

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Re: Steam does not start!

Thanks for the info wormzy. It does seem quite redundant now that you mention it. However, I'm not sure about the LD_PRELOAD part being redundant. I'll have to test that before drawing any further conclusions.

EDIT:
Nevermind, I mis-read your post wormzy. Thanks for the good catch/point! In my case to get Steam running though, the LD_PRELOAD was needed. Otherwise, the rest of it is very redundant, lol.

Last edited by JohnBobSmith (2016-11-03 14:03:26)

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telis80

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Registered: 2015-03-26

Posts: 96

Re: Steam does not start!

The preload doesn't work, it shutdowns without even showing the error i posted.

This works fine i think 

 optirun glxgears -info 

GL_RENDERER   = GeForce 940M/PCIe/SSE2
GL_VERSION    = 4.5.0 NVIDIA 370.28
GL_VENDOR     = NVIDIA Corporation
GL_EXTENSIONS = GL_AMD_multi_draw_indirect GL_AMD_seamless_cubemap_per_texture GL_ARB_arrays_of_arrays GL_ARB_base_instance GL_ARB_bindless_texture GL_ARB_blend_func_extended GL_ARB_buffer_storage GL_ARB_clear_buffer_object GL_ARB_clear_texture GL_ARB_clip_control GL_ARB_color_buffer_float GL_ARB_compatibility GL_ARB_compressed_texture_pixel_storage GL_ARB_conservative_depth GL_ARB_compute_shader GL_ARB_compute_variable_group_size GL_ARB_conditional_render_inverted GL_ARB_copy_buffer GL_ARB_copy_image GL_ARB_cull_distance GL_ARB_debug_output GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float GL_ARB_depth_clamp GL_ARB_depth_texture GL_ARB_derivative_control GL_ARB_direct_state_access GL_ARB_draw_buffers GL_ARB_draw_buffers_blend GL_ARB_draw_indirect GL_ARB_draw_elements_base_vertex GL_ARB_draw_instanced GL_ARB_enhanced_layouts GL_ARB_ES2_compatibility GL_ARB_ES3_compatibility GL_ARB_ES3_1_compatibility GL_ARB_ES3_2_compatibility GL_ARB_explicit_attrib_location GL_ARB_explicit_uniform_location 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GL_EXT_pixel_buffer_object GL_EXT_point_parameters GL_EXT_polygon_offset_clamp GL_EXT_provoking_vertex GL_EXT_rescale_normal GL_EXT_secondary_color GL_EXT_separate_shader_objects GL_EXT_separate_specular_color GL_EXT_shader_image_load_formatted GL_EXT_shader_image_load_store GL_EXT_shader_integer_mix GL_EXT_shadow_funcs GL_EXT_stencil_two_side GL_EXT_stencil_wrap GL_EXT_texture3D GL_EXT_texture_array GL_EXT_texture_buffer_object GL_EXT_texture_compression_dxt1 GL_EXT_texture_compression_latc GL_EXT_texture_compression_rgtc GL_EXT_texture_compression_s3tc GL_EXT_texture_cube_map GL_EXT_texture_edge_clamp GL_EXT_texture_env_combine GL_EXT_texture_env_dot3 GL_EXT_texture_filter_anisotropic GL_EXT_texture_integer GL_EXT_texture_lod GL_EXT_texture_lod_bias GL_EXT_texture_mirror_clamp GL_EXT_texture_object GL_EXT_texture_shared_exponent GL_EXT_texture_sRGB GL_EXT_texture_sRGB_decode GL_EXT_texture_storage GL_EXT_texture_swizzle GL_EXT_timer_query GL_EXT_transform_feedback2 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GL_NV_framebuffer_multisample_coverage GL_NV_geometry_shader4 GL_NV_gpu_program4 GL_NV_internalformat_sample_query GL_NV_gpu_program4_1 GL_NV_gpu_program5 GL_NV_gpu_program5_mem_extended GL_NV_gpu_program_fp64 GL_NV_gpu_shader5 GL_NV_half_float GL_NV_light_max_exponent GL_NV_multisample_coverage GL_NV_multisample_filter_hint GL_NV_occlusion_query GL_NV_packed_depth_stencil GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object GL_NV_parameter_buffer_object2 GL_NV_path_rendering GL_NV_pixel_data_range GL_NV_point_sprite GL_NV_primitive_restart GL_NV_register_combiners GL_NV_register_combiners2 GL_NV_shader_atomic_counters GL_NV_shader_atomic_float GL_NV_shader_atomic_int64 GL_NV_shader_buffer_load GL_NV_shader_storage_buffer_object GL_NV_texgen_reflection GL_NV_texture_barrier GL_NV_texture_compression_vtc GL_NV_texture_env_combine4 GL_NV_texture_multisample GL_NV_texture_rectangle GL_NV_texture_shader GL_NV_texture_shader2 GL_NV_texture_shader3 GL_NV_transform_feedback GL_NV_transform_feedback2 GL_NV_uniform_buffer_unified_memory GL_NV_vdpau_interop GL_NV_vertex_array_range GL_NV_vertex_array_range2 GL_NV_vertex_attrib_integer_64bit GL_NV_vertex_buffer_unified_memory GL_NV_vertex_program GL_NV_vertex_program1_1 GL_NV_vertex_program2 GL_NV_vertex_program2_option GL_NV_vertex_program3 GL_NVX_conditional_render GL_NVX_gpu_memory_info GL_NVX_nvenc_interop GL_NV_shader_thread_group GL_NV_shader_thread_shuffle GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced GL_KHR_blend_equation_advanced_coherent GL_SGIS_generate_mipmap GL_SGIS_texture_lod GL_SGIX_depth_texture GL_SGIX_shadow GL_SUN_slice_accum 
VisualID 32, 0x20
3629 frames in 5.0 seconds = 725.783 FPS
3671 frames in 5.0 seconds = 734.086 FPS
3729 frames in 5.0 seconds = 745.783 FPS
3693 frames in 5.0 seconds = 738.466 FPS
3716 frames in 5.0 seconds = 743.152 FPS
3713 frames in 5.0 seconds = 742.573 FPS
3717 frames in 5.0 seconds = 743.301 FPS
3672 frames in 5.0 seconds = 734.275 FPS

Because hybrid graphics are still quite buggy i was afraid to do to many tests with the drivers because it took me quite some time to fix them right, but i can post any output you want! ask me what you want to provide and i will!

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