I’m getting a weird issue with steam on my desktop running endeavourOS with qtile, where steam starts and then immediately closes. I’ve been trying to figure out why this happens, but all of the solutions I could find from googling errors have said to uninstall xdg-desktop-portal or flatpak, but neither of those things worked for me, nor did running steam with the -no-cef-sandbox or -vgui. It’s also worth noting that steam boots perfectly fine on my laptop (endeavourOS + KDE).

Here’s the result from running steam:

steam.sh[60179]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[60179]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[60253]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[60179]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Startup - updater built Jun 21 2023 21:17:38
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
07/09 12:18:01 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1687386907)/tid(60314)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] 1. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Checking for update on startup
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Checking for available updates...
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Downloading manifest: http://media.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2023-07-09 12:18:01] Manifest download: send request
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Manifest download: finished
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1687386907, installed version 1687386907, existing pending version 0
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Nothing to do
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Verifying installation...
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2023-07-09 12:18:02] Verification complete

(process:60314): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:18:02.475: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:60314): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:18:02.475: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xec817db0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xec816500
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
Loaded SDL version 3.0.0-1782-g214d5daa3

(steam:60314): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:18:02.549: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(steam:60314): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:18:02.549: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1090: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
/usr/share/themes/Arc-Dark/gtk-2.0/apps.rc:91: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[60356]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[60356]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
Failed to init SteamVR because it isn't installed
Assertion 'device' failed at src/libsystemd/sd-device/device-private.c:103, function device_get_tags_generation(). Aborting.
crash_20230709121803_27.dmp[60547]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20230709121803_27.dmp
/home/[username]/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 798: 60314 Aborted                 (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
crash_20230709121803_27.dmp[60547]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
crash_20230709121803_27.dmp[60547]: response: CrashID=bp-84664b98-84d4-4b31-8857-26fff2230709
crash_20230709121803_27.dmp[60547]: file ''/tmp/dumps/crash_20230709121803_27.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-84664b98-84d4-4b31-8857-26fff2230709''

Edit: Also not sure if there’s a better community to ask this in since this one seems to be mostly about news, I can ask elsewhere if this is the wrong community for debugging/help questions

Edit 2: I realized I didn’t specify, but my system has a Ryzen 7 5700x/RX 5700XT so it isn’t an issue with Nvidia drivers

Edit 3: Not sure why I put “Arch” in the title, just realized the mistake and fixed it. I’m on EndeavourOS, which is arch-based but obviously not the same thing.

Final Edit: Thanks for the help everyone! Installing the lib32-libnm package fixed it for me. If that doesn’t work for others, maybe try installing the flatpak version of steam, since that version was launching for me also

  • iamakEnglish
    -1•1 year ago

    Nvidia GPU I’m assuming? Make sure nvidia (or nvidia-dkms), nvidia-utils and lib32-nvidia-utils have the same version and are up to date. This issue is listed in the Arch Wiki see if it’s helpful for you.

      • DigesterEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        Try running these commands

        mv ~/.local/share/Steam ~/SteamBackup

        mv ~/.steam ~/SteamBackup steam

        Then launch steam by disabling direct write

        steam -no-dwrite

          • DigesterEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            Did you check if you have any conflicting libraries?

            You can also try replacing the steam folder with the one on your laptop. If that doesn’t work it’s a problem with the OS on your PC. If you can’t trace it back you might want to reinstall the distro. Just back up your files

            • @[email protected]OPEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              Apparently it was a problem with their network manager library, installing lib32-libnm ended up fixing it for me. (I’m assuming my laptop already had that installed as a dependency for something else or as part of the default KDE install)

              • DigesterEnglish
                2•1 year ago

                I’m glad everything works now

      • iamakEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        Oh. Can you launch games using the commandline? I don’t know how this works but I was having same issue with Nvidia and I launched a game with command line and it started working. It probably was a coincidence but it’s worth trying I guess.

          • iamakEnglish
            2•1 year ago

            Oh nvm then. Was worth a try. Anyways I see you solved it. Happy gaming! :)