Steam suddenly doesn't launch

Compizfox · 2022-06-30 19:26:53

Since today, I suddenly can't get Steam to launch anymore.

It doesn't output any error:

~> steam
steam.sh[8611]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[8611]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[8685]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[8611]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

When Googling on these messages, I found some old threads where it appeared to be a problem with incompatible lib32 Nvidia drivers. However, I don't have a Nvidia GPU.

My system is up-to-date, of course.

seth · 2022-06-30 20:23:48

Whatever you find for those lines is gonna be irrelevant since they're perfectly normal.

* "Since today" is after an update? What got updated? (check the pacman log)
* Is the steam.sh process still around after those messages? (ps aux | grep steam)
* Wayland or X11 session?
* glxinfo / eglinfo?
* You can also "export DEBUGGER=strace" to strace steam and maybe see where it hangs.

Compizfox · 2022-06-30 20:32:36

seth wrote:

Whatever you find for those lines is gonna be irrelevant since they're perfectly normal.

I know, I just posted it to show that it doesn't output any errors. By Googling the last message I found a few threads on the same issue from some time ago, however.

* "Since today" is after an update? What got updated? (check the pacman log)

I update my system almost everyday but I couldn't find any package that got updated that might be related to this.

* Is the steam.sh process still around after those messages? (ps aux | grep steam)

Nope. It just quits immediately.

* Wayland or X11 session?

Plasma Wayland.

* glxinfo / eglinfo?

Do you want me to post the complete output of that? It's rather long...

* You can also "export DEBUGGER=strace" to strace steam and maybe see where it hangs.

This outputs

strace: exec: Exec format error

seth · 2022-06-30 20:56:22

Plasma Wayland.

Try plasma/x11

Do you want me to post the complete output of that?

For a start, "glxinfo -B", but run that on an X11 session. If steam works on X11, "eglinfo | head -n32" and "eglinfo32 | head -n32" should do.

Compizfox · 2022-07-01 20:02:07

X11 or Wayland did not make any difference, but I managed to fix it by running

steam --reset

.

Arch Linux

#1 2022-06-30 19:26:53

Steam suddenly doesn't launch

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