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Code Lyo_ko

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[Solved] Steam not launching

I installed steam with pacman but when I run it, it doesn't start and this is what I get:

steam.sh[186144]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[186144]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[186217]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
/home/code_lyoko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh: line 85: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: command not found
run.sh[186230]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig
steam.sh[186144]: Couldn't find /home/code_lyoko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/srt-logger, logging to console-linux.txt
steam.sh[186144]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
[2025-01-26 21:09:59] Startup - updater built Jul 16 2024 23:21:18
[2025-01-26 21:09:59] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/code_lyoko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".

with more lines after but I believe the errors are here, with steam-runtime-identify-library-abi.

Last edited by Code Lyo_ko (2025-01-28 06:48:37)

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Steam#Installation

Make sure an en_US.UTF-8 locale is generated.

Code Lyo_ko

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

It is

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

Is it?

locale -a

, the Addfile command that's apparently the last thing you're seeing is usually an indicator of that not being the case, other than that potentially missing some 32bit dep, I'd generally reccommend you install steam-native-runtime even if not using the native launcher to get a baseline of potentially necessary 32bit libs

Last edited by V1del (2025-01-26 19:43:19)

Code Lyo_ko

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

This is the output of locale -a :

C
C.utf8
en_US.utf8
fi_FI.utf8
fr_FR.utf8
POSIX 

And I also installed steam-native-runtime

Last edited by Code Lyo_ko (2025-01-26 20:08:09)

cryptearth

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

And I also installed steam-native-runtime

dont - just use multilib/steam - it should pull in all dependencies (given you've installed arch correctly following the wiki guide)

Code Lyo_ko

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

Well I did follow the guide. And I saw that the error I get was because of lib32-glibc before ( https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … glibc2393/ ) but it is supposedly fixed now.

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

Is that the entirety of output you get? Try a

steam --reset

cryptearth

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

glibc is at 2.40
but yea - sometimes the sledgehammer is a good idea just like on windows: removing everything from but the executeable and games and let it fix itself

Code Lyo_ko

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

it says

/home/code_lyoko/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 554: no match: ssfn*

and then it launches just like above (so it doesn't launch but try to and fail)

Code Lyo_ko

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

Btw this is the entire output if you want :

steam.sh[6036]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[6036]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[6109]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
/home/code_lyoko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/run.sh: line 85: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: command not found
run.sh[6121]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig
steam.sh[6036]: Couldn't find /home/code_lyoko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/srt-logger, logging to console-linux.txt
steam.sh[6036]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
[2025-01-27 08:23:11] Startup - updater built Jul 16 2024 23:21:18
[2025-01-27 08:23:11] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/code_lyoko/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
src/steamexe/updateui_xwin.cpp (1466) : BFileExists( m_FontFileRegular )
src/steamexe/updateui_xwin.cpp (1466) : BFileExists( m_FontFileRegular )
01/27 08:23:11 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
01/27 08:23:11 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0)/tid(6155)
assert_20250127082311_3.dmp[6158]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20250127082311_3.dmp
src/steamexe/updateui_xwin.cpp (1467) : BFileExists( m_FontFileLight )
src/steamexe/updateui_xwin.cpp (1467) : BFileExists( m_FontFileLight )
01/27 08:23:11 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
01/27 08:23:11 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0)/tid(6155)
assert_20250127082311_6.dmp[6162]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20250127082311_6.dmp
01/27 08:23:11 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
01/27 08:23:11 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(6155)
src/steamexe/updateui_xwin.cpp (341) : Could not open connection to X
src/steamexe/updateui_xwin.cpp (341) : Could not open connection to X
01/27 08:23:11 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0)/tid(6155)
execl failed, errno 2
assert_20250127082311_10.dmp[6167]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20250127082311_10.dmp
src/steamexe/main.cpp (1299) : failed to initialize update status ui, or create initial window
src/steamexe/main.cpp (1299) : failed to initialize update status ui, or create initial window
01/27 08:23:11 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0)/tid(6155)
assert_20250127082311_13.dmp[6171]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20250127082311_13.dmp
assert_20250127082311_13.dmp[6171]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = no
assert_20250127082311_13.dmp[6171]: error: HTTP response code said error
assert_20250127082311_13.dmp[6171]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250127082311_13.dmp'', upload no: ''HTTP response code said error''
assert_20250127082311_10.dmp[6167]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20250127082311_10.dmp[6167]: response: CrashID=bp-30017441-fe28-4a01-97ef-fa5bd2250126
assert_20250127082311_10.dmp[6167]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20250127082311_10.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-30017441-fe28-4a01-97ef-fa5bd2250126''

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

What's your environment? If anything wayland based, xorg-xwayland installed and started?

Also because these libs it doesn't find isn't normal, I'd suggest you remove your entire .local/share/Steam make sure the package from the repos is alright

pacman -Qikk steam

and retry.

Last edited by V1del (2025-01-27 09:36:13)

Code Lyo_ko

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

Oh god okay I was convinced I installed xwayland already but I think I got confused because the wiki page said that my compositor enabled it by default and did not realize I still needed to install it lol
Thank you it's working now, I feel so stupid now

V1del

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

Right -- we would've probably arrived at that sooner if we had the full output from the start... please for future posts, don't filter on what you think is relevant if more context is actually present.

please mark as [SOLVED] by editing the title in your first post.

Last edited by V1del (2025-01-27 13:59:06)

Code Lyo_ko

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Re: [Solved] Steam not launching

Sorry, will do