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MrFlacko

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Registered: 2019-01-08

Posts: 21

Steam is just not opening anymore

Hey

Within the same session, I was using steam completely fine, like I have been for a couple of years now, then I wanted to view someone's broadcast. I clicked on watch for their broadcast and steam said it was updating. I left it for a couple of minutes, then saw in my network tracker it just really wasn't doing anything, so I closed steam (by right clicking on the application and clicking exit). I have done this numerous times because steam is one of those programs which just breaks every so often. This time, when I went to open it, steam just wouldn't open at all.

I am opening it through the Steam (Runtime) application, though I have tried each way.

The only way to get it to start is if i remove "~/.steam" and "~/.local/share/Steam"
then I do the command (when everything is stopped) "steam --reset"
this is then download everything and open steam, but as soon as I close it I can' t open it again

I have tried Multiple Users, Updating the system, Restarting, uninstalling all steam packages with -Rns Restarting again, installing again, installing only steam, installing only steam-native-runtime, installing both.
I haven't managed to get it to consistently work again.

Within KSysGuard, whenever I go to open it then close it, there is a process where the "CPU %" is marked as "Zombie". I can't "End Process" I have to right click and kill. I also can't do the command killall steam, or even kill on the pid

The weird part is I stopped it within the same session, then a few seconds later I tried to open it, no changes at all to the system, now it won't open at all.

OS: Arch Linux x86_64
Host: B365M D3H
Kernel: 5.17.3-arch1-1
Uptime: 15 mins
Packages: 1555 (pacman)
Shell: bash 5.1.16
Resolution: 1920x1080, 1920x1080, 1920x1080
DE: Cinnamon 5.2.7
WM: Mutter (Muffin)
WM Theme: Adara-Dark (Jade-1)
Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2/3]
Icons: gnome [GTK2/3]
Terminal: xfce4-terminal
Terminal Font: Monospace 12
CPU: Intel i9-9900K (16) @ 5.000GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti
Memory: 2538MiB / 32047MiB

A note, I did recently upgrade from an AMD RX 480 8GB to a Nvidia RTX 3070 Ti
Maybe switching from AMD to Nvidia messed with stuff

Last edited by MrFlacko (2022-04-17 08:51:38)

nick_0189

Member

Registered: 2020-12-21

Posts: 45

Re: Steam is just not opening anymore

I don't have any really good ideas, but, since nobody has responded in about a week, I'm wondering if there is a configuration file in ~/.config/steam or similar that you could temporarily move somewhere else. Then you could reopen Steam and see if that fixed the issue.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,285

Re: Steam is just not opening anymore

Also start it in a terminal and post the output in code tags