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muddy

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Registered: 2016-08-10

Posts: 17

[Solved] Steam won't launch after latest pacman system update

Has anyone else's Steam stopped launching after the latest updates?

There is nothing in the logs at all, just says :
$ steam-native
Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is disabled by the user

Nothing at all shows up in the journal or any log since I last played a game a couple days ago.
I've tried a force reinstall of my entire box and that did not help either.

Any ideas where to even start troubleshooting since it's not logging anything?
(or if Steam client is just broken for now)

Thanks.

***** SOLVED******
After swtiching mirrorlist.pacnew out for mirrorlist in /etc/pacman.d/ and running pacman -Syu and rebooting everything is back to normal. Thanks all for the suggestions and advice.

Last edited by muddy (2019-02-26 20:48:19)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [Solved] Steam won't launch after latest pacman system update

latest updates means something different for everyone, what was updated, what's your graphics setup, does GL work otherwise? What's your output for

glxinfo | grep OpenGL #Needs mesa-demos

muddy

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Registered: 2016-08-10

Posts: 17

Re: [Solved] Steam won't launch after latest pacman system update

at first mesa-demos was not installed after installing here is the output

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL #Needs mesa-demos
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GTX 1060 3GB/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 418.43
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 418.43
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 418.43
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

Did some more checking, would having nvidia drivers at different levels cause issues?
lib32-nvidia-utils-415.27-1  nvidia-utils-418.43-2

Last edited by muddy (2019-02-25 02:48:03)

muddy

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Registered: 2016-08-10

Posts: 17

Re: [Solved] Steam won't launch after latest pacman system update

I think I figured it out finally.
I noticed the lib32-nvidia-utils was not upgrading past 415 but the official repo shows it's at 418 which made me look at pacman, and eventually the mirrorlist in /etc/pacman.d/
I found a mirrorlist.pacnew with a date in it from last month and swapped it out for the current one and my pacman -Syu went from 200mb to 800mb.. and included  lib32-nvidia-utils along with a bunch of other lib32 files.
Upgrading now will edit this once I'm back online.