[SOLVED] Unable to launch steam.

Klintyfye · 2021-11-12 12:41:29

Hi!

When I enter steam in the terminal this happens:

Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
WARNING: Using default/fallback debugger launch
/home/USER/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam

I have installed it through multilib. nvidia, nvidia-utils, lib32-nvidia-utils are all installed.

When I try and launch it from the taskbar, nothing happenes.

Kind regards.

Last edited by Klintyfye (2021-11-13 10:37:48)

Ammako · 2021-11-12 22:23:31

Do you happen to have a lingering steam process running in the background?

Failing that, try https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam/ … _correctly and see if it helps.

WorMzy · 2021-11-12 23:10:59

Install both extra/mesa-demos and multilib/lib32-mesa-demos and post the output of

glxinfo
glxinfo32

crazybit · 2021-11-13 03:24:15

I had the same problem after pacman -Syu today. I'm using mesa-git from Laurent Carlier.

What fixed my issue was resetting steam and downgrading all mesagit packages.

Reset steam via (you will lose your custom proton installs):

steam-runtime --reset

Downgrade all mesagit packages (using downgrade program from AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/downgrade/ :

sudo downgrade $(pacman -Qg mesagit | awk '{print $2}')

With a reboot, Steam now works.

Edit: doing the --reset will remove all Steam settings, but will NOT delete your games. However, upon starting Steam, you must enable Proton in Steam settings, install a custom proton (if you had it installed before) and then select a proton version in a game's settings for the game to appear "installed".

Last edited by crazybit (2021-11-13 05:23:44)

Klintyfye · 2021-11-13 09:00:36

Ammako wrote:

Do you happen to have a lingering steam process running in the background?

After booting my machine up again today it just works. I'm guessing this is what it was but I have no way to back that statement up.

Just out of curiosity. How could I have checked if this was the case? Is there a "task manager" like in windows?

V1del · 2021-11-13 11:35:11

There are a few on console, e.g. top or ps you can grep through. Otherwise most desktop environments will ship with one, e.g. KDE has one on Ctrl+Esc (... granted ksysguard is installed) most others will have something similar though I wouldn't know their keybinds

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#1 2021-11-12 12:41:29

[SOLVED] Unable to launch steam.

#2 2021-11-12 22:23:31

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to launch steam.

#3 2021-11-12 23:10:59

Re: [SOLVED] Unable to launch steam.

#4 2021-11-13 03:24:15

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#5 2021-11-13 09:00:36

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