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Renfield

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Registered: 2017-11-07

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[SOLVED] Fresh install with Steam, can't connect to the internet

Update: Just run Steam for the first time without big picture mode, login, and then close it down. Subsequently it will operate correctly in big picture mode

I'm building an HTPC, and having problems with Steam. Arch boots up, lightdm starts and auto-logs in the kodi user,which starts OpenBox and OpenBox starts Kodi. From there I've installed the Steam addon for Kodi. I select that and it starts Steam in big picture mode.

The first time I started it, Steam updated itself to the latest. Then it asked me for language and time zone, and it is at the network screen that there is a problem. It does not detect that there is an Ethernet cable plugged in (there is), and also doesn't detect a wi-fi card (which there isn't). If I ignore that and select next, neither the automatic nor the manual configuration ever succeeds.

I have read through the Steam installation and Steam troubleshooting wiki pages. I read the link about which ports need to be open on my firewall/router. It is kind of confusing, but I believe that all I need at this point are to be able to access Valve's servers via ports 80 and 443, which I can do. I checked with wget of https://store.steampowered.com as user kodi and that returned an index.html page, so I think that part works. For sure networking outside of Steam is working, Netflix, YouTube, Pandora all work for me.

I saw the troubleshooting item regarding Steam requiring online, and followed that to enable systemd-resolved.service (which is making use of the existing /etc/resolv.conf, managed by dhcpcd), and installed lib32-libcurl-compat.

All of the logs are in ~kodi/.local/share/Steam/logs, and I don't see any obvious error. In particular here are a few of them (just the latest run of Steam):

connection_log.txt

[2020-07-04 12:44:22] Log session started
[2020-07-04 12:44:22] [0,0] SetSteamID( [U:1:0] )
[2020-07-04 12:44:23] IPv6 HTTP connectivity test (ipv6check-http.steamcontent.com / [2602:801:f006:100::a2fe:c303]:80 ([2602:801:f006:100::a2fe:c303]:80)) - SUCCESS
[2020-07-04 12:44:23] IPv6 UDP connectivity test (ipv6check-udp.steamcontent.com / [2602:801:f007:100::a2fe:c10a]:27019) - SUCCESS

configstore_log.txt

[2020-07-04 12:44:22] Loaded store 'install' from '/home/kodi/.local/share/Steam/config/config.vdf' successfully
[2020-07-04 12:44:22] Loaded store 'install' from '/home/kodi/.local/share/Steam/config/config.vdf' successfully

cef_log.txt

[0704/124422.969173:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(247)] Crash reporting enabled for process: browser
[0704/124423.045532:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(247)] Crash reporting enabled for process: gpu-process
[0704/124423.147809:ERROR:sandbox_linux.cc(372)] InitializeSandbox() called with multiple threads in process gpu-process.
[0704/124423.179457:INFO:crash_reporting.cc(247)] Crash reporting enabled for process: utility

bootstrap_log.txt

[2020-07-04 12:44:22] Startup - updater built Jun  4 2020 05:50:42
[2020-07-04 12:44:22] Verifying installation...
[2020-07-04 12:44:22] Verification complete

Last edited by Renfield (2020-07-05 13:20:12)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] Fresh install with Steam, can't connect to the internet

systemd-resolved.service (which is making use of the existing /etc/resolv.conf, managed by dhcpcd)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Sy … omatically

Dhcpcd is an openresolv user, is systemd-resolvconf installed ?

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Renfield

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Registered: 2017-11-07

Posts: 9

Re: [SOLVED] Fresh install with Steam, can't connect to the internet

Thanks a lot. I missed that bit. I guess I was confused with systemd-resolved.service and systemd-resolvconf. I've installed the latter now.

But in the end I think the problem is just a bug in Steam. I ran Steam without big picture mode and it simply asked for my login and password. After completing that and then closing it down, running it again in big picture mode doesn't ask initial setup questions and just automatically logs in.