[SOLVED] Steam multilib package not running after updating system

Hi, I updated my computer an hour ago by running the line:
sudo pacman -Syu && yay -Syu && flatpak update

I have the Nvidia driver installed with the nvidia-open package. When I tried to launch Steam, either on Wayland or X11, it hangs when it tries to run. I made sure to restart my system after updating too. I ran steam-runtime in the terminal and I got this:

[user@user123 ~]$ steam-runtime
steam.sh[4623]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[4623]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[4678]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[4623]: Log already open
steam.sh[4623]: Using supervisor /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor
steam.sh[4623]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-03-22 15:03:36] Startup - updater built Jan 28 2025 00:50:36
[2025-03-22 15:03:36] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened'
03/22 15:03:36 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
03/22 15:03:36 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1738026274)/tid(4739)
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau

It hangs when it fails to load the Nouveau driver, but that driver gets blacklisted when the Nvidia driver is installed, so I’m not sure what is causing this problem.

I’m not entirely sure what happened during the upgrade process, but the lib32-nvidia-utils pakcage was missing from my system. I reinstalled it and Steam now launches with no issues.

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