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Worldmaster

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Registered: 2025-03-25

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[Solved] Steam is not opening after recent update

After the most recent update, I click on steam and it seems to load for a couple seconds then stops and will never launch. I have had this issue before, but I would just restart my computer and it would fix itself.  I looked at the debugging steam section on this page and found

$ DEBUGGER=gdb steam

and its output was

bin_steam.sh[3185]: Setting up for debugging, not logging to console-linux.txt
bin_steam.sh[3185]: Setting up for debugging, not logging to console-linux.txt
bin_steam.sh[3185]: Setting up for debugging, not logging to console-linux.txt
/usr/lib/steam/steam: line 306: /home/Jordan/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Success

I then just ran to enter the gdb normally

gdb steam

after running it I got this output

Usage: file [-bcCdEhikLlNnprsSvzZ0] [--apple] [--extension] [--mime-encoding]
            [--mime-type] [-e <testname>] [-F <separator>]  [-f <namefile>]
            [-m <magicfiles>] [-P <parameter=value>] [--exclude-quiet]
            <file> ...
       file -C [-m <magicfiles>]
       file [--help]
[Inferior 1 (process 3738) exited with code 01]

Last edited by Worldmaster (2025-03-25 19:11:01)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,157

Re: [Solved] Steam is not opening after recent update

Recent update means something different for everyone, you updated which packages to which versions? Check your /var/log/pacman.log, what log output do you get without trying to GDB things yourself.

Worldmaster

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Registered: 2025-03-25

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Steam is not opening after recent update

Steam stopped working after upgrading from 1.0.0.81-2 to 1.0.0.82-1.
Edit: I tried to downgrade the package and it still does the same thing.

Last edited by Worldmaster (2025-03-25 19:00:35)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,157

Re: [Solved] Steam is not opening after recent update

steam as in the package is mostly just an initial install kickoff launcher, it's mostly inert once a steam install exists in any shape or form (which is present in your $HOME/.local/share/Steam), it gets updated occasionally to facilitate new installs, it should have very little effect on existing installs. Please post either more actable error messages or the package list involved in the update or anything really. Does running

steam --reset

help?

In case it isn't obvious, steam works here, so this is "something" local to your setup.

Last edited by V1del (2025-03-25 18:53:17)

Worldmaster

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Registered: 2025-03-25

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Steam is not opening after recent update

It outputs this

/usr/lib/steam/steam: line 306: /home/Jordan/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Success

, but still never launches.

Worldmaster

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Registered: 2025-03-25

Posts: 4

Re: [Solved] Steam is not opening after recent update

I solved the issue by just deleting the /home/Jordan/.local/share/Steam/ after deleting steam and then redownloading it. Thank you so much for the help anyway.

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,157

Re: [Solved] Steam is not opening after recent update

Did you set noexec or so on your home dir/mount point?

mount
stat /home/Jordan/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
stat /home/Jordan/.local/share/Steam
ls -l /home/Jordan/.local/share/Steam/

Edit, ah, but that will have deleted most of your library...

Last edited by V1del (2025-03-25 19:11:54)