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afader

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Registered: 2013-09-12

Posts: 188

[solved] steam host file

When I launch steam I get the error

src/steamUI/webuitransportcontroller.cpp (198) : Failed to connect to websocket
src/steamUI/webuitransportcontroller.cpp (198) : Failed to connect to websocket

I tried downgrading from 0.0.82 to 79, it seemed like it was working for a while, but somehow it stopped working again, also tried changing mesa version? Was using mesa-git and went back to regular mesa? Was using packages from the cachyos repo, could that be part of the problem?

Am using nvidia, wayland, also have firejail and apparmor, but I removed the local/bin/steam symlink. Maybe I need to un-firejail something else? Also have opensnitch but it does not seem to be blocking anything specific?

any other debug ideas?

SOLVED; needed to delete the loopback entries in my host file weirdly..

Last edited by afader (2025-04-06 01:20:32)

hsn6

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Registered: 2025-04-11

Posts: 1

Re: [solved] steam host file

I encountered this issue on Steam recently, and after reading this topic, I tried the command that solved the Gradle error as well:

sudo iptables -t nat -D POSTROUTING 1

And now the Steam UI is working!

Last edited by hsn6 (2025-04-11 18:03:52)