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satokowashing

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Registered: 2023-11-05

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Steam Family Sharing Resets Every Reboot

This seems to be an arch specific issue, as I've only had it happen on arch based distros, and I tried moving to Arch to fix it, but it continues. The only clue I have is that my PC seems to be recognized as a different individual PC every time I launch steam after reboot. Is there anything I can do to try to get around this?

satokowashing

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Registered: 2023-11-05

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Re: Steam Family Sharing Resets Every Reboot

tried runtime, native, and flatpak, none of these stick after a reboot, and it seems to think it's a different system every time
maybe i'm missing an ubuntu package?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Steam Family Sharing Resets Every Reboot

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
It might help because even steam users who've simply ever encountered that probably have no idea what you're talking about.

From the "think it's a different system" I'd maybe ballpark MAC spoofing/randomization?
But I've never used steam and really no idea what you're talking about whatsoever.

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satokowashing

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Registered: 2023-11-05

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Re: Steam Family Sharing Resets Every Reboot

Please don't paraphrase, https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=57855
It might help because even steam users who've simply ever encountered that probably have no idea what you're talking about.

The problem with that: Running a Debug turns up nothing related to the issue. I've seen one other thread on this and it was on Arch forum with zero replies.

Basic steps to reproduce:
Have main account
Create secondary account (doesn't need to be activated for steam family sharing to work)
Activate family sharing on the main account for the secondary account
Reboot PC

Let me rephrase it in as much detail as possible, then.

tried using Steam-Native-Runtime/Steam/Steam flatpak:

I'm trying to share my games on the same computer with a secondary account, but whenever I reboot the PC, I lose access on the secondary account. The borrow button says to log into the main account and enable family sharing on the device.

When I go to re-enable the sharing on the main account, I see that the PC is still listed, and the secondary account is also listed, but when I re-check "Enable family sharing on this device", it causes a second PC entry to appear, at which point, the sharing works again. Then, when I reboot, it happens again, and this continues repeatedly like this.

Last edited by satokowashing (2023-11-06 10:40:07)

satokowashing

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Registered: 2023-11-05

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Re: Steam Family Sharing Resets Every Reboot

this has apparently been like this for a very long time now. it's not worth my time to debug it if no one else is going to, so i'm probably just going to end up switching back off of arch.
(It's not like I can even debug it. I have no idea what it's doing to set a machine/device. So there's nowhere to start with it.)

Last edited by satokowashing (2023-11-06 21:39:52)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: Steam Family Sharing Resets Every Reboot

Do you have a proper hostname set?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Steam Family Sharing Resets Every Reboot

ie.

hostnamectl

I'd esp. inquire what steam checks there.
Also test whether you need to reboot or just
- restart steam
- relogin
- restart networkmanager(?)
to cause this.

The most plausible thing to me would be a randomized MAC to secure the IPv6 address, maybe VPN?

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