Steam Will not Launch [Solved]

jrgiacone · 2024-11-01 00:03:23

here is cat and stat

❯ stat /home/jrgiacone/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
  File: /home/jrgiacone/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
  Size: 0         	Blocks: 0          IO Block: 4096   regular empty file
Device: 259,8	Inode: 9448519     Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: ( 1000/jrgiacone)   Gid: ( 1000/jrgiacone)
Access: 2024-10-31 07:21:00.885946724 -0700
Modify: 2024-10-24 09:51:12.000000000 -0700
Change: 2024-10-27 16:22:17.243538429 -0700
 Birth: 2024-10-27 16:22:16.986871769 -0700

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❯ cat /home/jrgiacone/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh

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❯

jrgiacone · 2024-11-01 00:04:35

V1del wrote:

you'd see the string noexec in the mount options and you'd need to get rid of the noexec in your fstab or wherever it is you're mounting your /home
But if unsure post the outputs you get so we can check

doesnt look like it is noexec...

I updated today too same issues.

jrgiacone · 2024-11-01 00:12:27

Update for everyone, I deleted steam.sh from the .local/share/steam folder, now steam could run steam --reset which cleared the folder and running steam made it re download all files/ re create all of them. Steam is up and running and fixed, note half the files in there showed zero. There must have been a corruption at some point or something caused it to reset. On ext4 so weird.... But yea Seth was super helpful the empty cat lead me down the path to check

cryptearth · 2024-11-01 01:40:15

hm, so the "sledgehammer windows method: wipe all but the binary and have it reconstruct its environment on its own" helped for once here ... interesting

V1del · 2024-11-01 01:42:38

You'll want to check disk health, something like this shouldn't be normal... what output do you get from

sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX #Replace with actual device node, install smartmontools if you haven't already

jrgiacone · 2024-11-01 03:46:33

cryptearth wrote:

hm, so the "sledgehammer windows method: wipe all but the binary and have it reconstruct its environment on its own" helped for once here ... interesting

how does this look:

❯ sudo smartctl -a /dev/nvme1n1
[sudo] password for jrgiacone:
smartctl 7.4 2023-08-01 r5530 [x86_64-linux-6.11.5-arch1-1] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-23, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Number:                       WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0
Serial Number:                      21033Y803083
Firmware Version:                   111110WD
PCI Vendor/Subsystem ID:            0x15b7
IEEE OUI Identifier:                0x001b44
Total NVM Capacity:                 1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB]
Unallocated NVM Capacity:           0
Controller ID:                      8215
NVMe Version:                       1.3
Number of Namespaces:               1
Namespace 1 Size/Capacity:          1,000,204,886,016 [1.00 TB]
Namespace 1 Formatted LBA Size:     512
Namespace 1 IEEE EUI-64:            001b44 8b488d91b0
Local Time is:                      Thu Oct 31 20:45:21 2024 PDT
Firmware Updates (0x14):            2 Slots, no Reset required
Optional Admin Commands (0x0017):   Security Format Frmw_DL Self_Test
Optional NVM Commands (0x005f):     Comp Wr_Unc DS_Mngmt Wr_Zero Sav/Sel_Feat Timestmp
Log Page Attributes (0x0e):         Cmd_Eff_Lg Ext_Get_Lg Telmtry_Lg
Maximum Data Transfer Size:         128 Pages
Warning  Comp. Temp. Threshold:     84 Celsius
Critical Comp. Temp. Threshold:     88 Celsius
Namespace 1 Features (0x02):        NA_Fields

Supported Power States
St Op     Max   Active     Idle   RL RT WL WT  Ent_Lat  Ex_Lat
 0 +     6.00W       -        -    0  0  0  0        0       0
 1 +     3.50W       -        -    1  1  1  1        0       0
 2 +     3.00W       -        -    2  2  2  2        0       0
 3 -   0.1000W       -        -    3  3  3  3     4000   10000
 4 -   0.0025W       -        -    4  4  4  4     4000   40000

Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         2
 1 -    4096       0         1

=== START OF SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
Critical Warning:                   0x00
Temperature:                        32 Celsius
Available Spare:                    100%
Available Spare Threshold:          10%
Percentage Used:                    0%
Data Units Read:                    19,851,264 [10.1 TB]
Data Units Written:                 19,779,299 [10.1 TB]
Host Read Commands:                 132,162,514
Host Write Commands:                96,883,356
Controller Busy Time:               405
Power Cycles:                       1,283
Power On Hours:                     5,144
Unsafe Shutdowns:                   43
Media and Data Integrity Errors:    0
Error Information Log Entries:      1
Warning  Comp. Temperature Time:    0
Critical Comp. Temperature Time:    0

Error Information (NVMe Log 0x01, 16 of 256 entries)
No Errors Logged

Read Self-test Log failed: Invalid Field in Command (0x4002)

seth · 2024-11-01 07:18:53

The "sledgehammer" is always the only solution when dealing with file corruption

the empty cat lead me down the path to check

stat btw showed the same.

The disk doesn't look suspicious, the file corruption might be down to
* hard reboots
* overly aggressive https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_state_drive#TRIM or
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Solid_ … ing_(APST)

Arch Linux

#26 2024-11-01 00:03:23

Re: Steam Will not Launch [Solved]

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