Steam not working

I installed steam and when I run it I get the accept box or whatever it is on first run and then nothing happens. I’m running 64bit OS is there something else I need to install for this to work?
Thanks

Try to run it from terminal with something like this

steam > ~/steamlog

and paste this steamlog (it will be in your home folder) on service like pastebin, copy link here.

In addition, what is the result of

eix games-util/steam-launcher

thanks !

Here is the steam log output https://pastebin.com/eSAKc95S i got the same results on the r1 version before i tried layman the steam-overlay and got r3 what im running now.

and here is the eix games-util/steam-launcher output https://pastebin.com/0SuWhqJh

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4948
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4820

First looks very similar to your issue. Maybe fixes from that thread will help you.

I thought about USE flagsin mesa package (abi_x86_32) but it’s here so this is not an issue.

They didnt work, thanks for the find, i got steam installed on my Solus install works well dont understand why not here. here is the terminal output with LD_PRELOAD https://pastebin.com/ivmbUrg7

Found a fix and got it working on my calculate desktop :slight_smile: YAY!! simply removing the libs did the trick with this command i found on the steam forums

 find ~/.steam/steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" -o -name "libgpg-error.so*" \) -print -delete

Brad Heffernan wrote:

Found a fix and got it working on my calculate desktop :slight_smile: YAY!! simply removing the libs did the trick with this command i found on the steam forums

[…]

So it’s valve’s fault, they should update libraries.

Tomasz Kaczmarczyk wrote:

Brad Heffernan wrote:

Found a fix and got it working on my calculate desktop :slight_smile: YAY!! simply removing the libs did the trick with this command i found on the steam forums

[…]

So it’s valve’s fault, they should update libraries.

yes its valve by the looks of it, i didnt have the problem with steam on Solus but i think ikey done some tinkering with install process for amd drivers. i dont know just guessing :smiley:

Brad Heffernan wrote:

Found a fix and got it working on my calculate desktop :slight_smile: YAY!! simply removing the libs did the trick with this command i found on the steam forums

[…]

I am having problems getting Steam to work. I installed the Steam-loader, ran Steam and logged in. I get the Steam window and I installed American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2 and City Skylines.

I try to run American Truck Sim and after clicking play, the game doesn’t start. Same for Euro Truck and City Skylines.

I tried coping and pasting the fix that had been posted in my terminal, and it had a bunch of lines scroll up, and then started Steam, and still American Truck, Euro Truck and City Skylines will not load.

I even tried installing Steam and trying this fix after I logged in to my account and before installing the games. Running the fix doesn’t work until I go though the initial run of Steam and log in to my account cause the libraries it will remove don’t exist till I run Steam the first time to log in to my account.

I ended up re-installing Linux Mint Cinnamon to be able to run Steam for the games. But would like to figure out what I need to get it to work in Calculate. I had no problems getting the Nvidia drivers installed, but cna’t get Steam to run the games with or without this fix line.

Cajun Man wrote:

Brad Heffernan wrote:

Found a fix and got it working on my calculate desktop :slight_smile: YAY!! simply removing the libs did the trick with this command i found on the steam forums

[…]

I am having problems getting Steam to work. I installed the Steam-loader, ran Steam and logged in. I get the Steam window and I installed American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2 and City Skylines.

I try to run American Truck Sim and after clicking play, the game doesn’t start. Same for Euro Truck and City Skylines.

I tried coping and pasting the fix that had been posted in my terminal, and it had a bunch of lines scroll up, and then started Steam, and still American Truck, Euro Truck and City Skylines will not load.

I even tried installing Steam and trying this fix after I logged in to my account and before installing the games. Running the fix doesn’t work until I go though the initial run of Steam and log in to my account cause the libraries it will remove don’t exist till I run Steam the first time to log in to my account.

I ended up re-installing Linux Mint Cinnamon to be able to run Steam for the games. But would like to figure out what I need to get it to work in Calculate. I had no problems getting the Nvidia drivers installed, but cna’t get Steam to run the games with or without this fix line.

Yes !
Easy to fix !

If you don’t installed my overlay (where stam is patched), try that :

  • close steam

  • edit /usr/bin/steam file

  • comment line 31 adding # before :
    #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH*["${LD_LIBRARY_PATH]{style=“text-align:center;”}*:}/usr/lib64/debiancompat:/usr/lib32/debiancompat"

  • Save the file

  • Launch steam again :slight_smile:

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Adrien Daugabel wrote:

Cajun Man wrote:

Brad Heffernan wrote:

Found a fix and got it working on my calculate desktop :slight_smile: YAY!! simply removing the libs did the trick with this command i found on the steam forums

[…]

I am having problems getting Steam to work. I installed the Steam-loader, ran Steam and logged in. I get the Steam window and I installed American Truck Simulator, Euro Truck Simulator 2 and City Skylines.

I try to run American Truck Sim and after clicking play, the game doesn’t start. Same for Euro Truck and City Skylines.

I tried coping and pasting the fix that had been posted in my terminal, and it had a bunch of lines scroll up, and then started Steam, and still American Truck, Euro Truck and City Skylines will not load.

I even tried installing Steam and trying this fix after I logged in to my account and before installing the games. Running the fix doesn’t work until I go though the initial run of Steam and log in to my account cause the libraries it will remove don’t exist till I run Steam the first time to log in to my account.

I ended up re-installing Linux Mint Cinnamon to be able to run Steam for the games. But would like to figure out what I need to get it to work in Calculate. I had no problems getting the Nvidia drivers installed, but cna’t get Steam to run the games with or without this fix line.

Yes !
Easy to fix !

If you don’t installed my overlay (where stam is patched), try that :

  • close steam
  • edit /usr/bin/steam file
  • comment line 31 adding # before :
    #export LD_LIBRARY_PATH*["${LD_LIBRARY_PATH]{style=“text-align:center;”}*:}/usr/lib64/debiancompat:/usr/lib32/debiancompat"
  • Save the file
  • Launch steam again :slight_smile:

Cool. Sometime tomorrow I’ll have time to re-install Calculate Linux and will try that. I’m still new to Gentoo so it’ll take time before I can figure out overlays. So I’ll just edit that file and try that. Do I still need to run the fix above that removes some libs? Or does this take care of it if I run that line or not?

There is a video DMZE did about overlays, I’ll watch that and see if I can understand it better.

Only comment the line and restart steam. Do not install/remove packages.

After comment this line, verify that others games always works, but for me, all is OK :slight_smile:

Ok. I didn’t mean uninstalling packages, I just meant that line that finds certain libraries in the ~/.steam/steam dir and deletes those libraries.

When I get it re-installed, I’ll just edit that file and go from there.

Thanks again. Can’t wait till tomorrow to try this out.

do not delete files in the top of this topic.
juste edit steam file and it works :slight_smile:

I didn’t delete any files in the top of this topic.

I installed Calculate, installed the nvidia drivers, then installed steam-loader, then after running it and logging into my account, I quit Steam, edited the file you said and saved it, re-started Steam, installed American Truck Simulator and it ran like it should!!!

This is great! Thank you for your help.

I’ll try to learn how to properly use overlays, so if I ever have to install Calculate again, I can try that with your overlay. Just to see if I can, even though this route seemed pretty easy to do, I would like to see how to use overlays.

I’ll just have to watch that video several times to get the hang of it.