Steam acting weird

General system Gaming, sound and video
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Fairly new Cinnamon install. After installing steam, I’ve had issues getting the overlay to work. I’ve tried numerous fixes, including those on the Arch Wiki, but it just won’t start:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

I decided to check the Steam logs, and nothing was listed with the aforementioned errors. Where I did find it mentioned was in a most unlikely place…my $HOME/.config/mimeapps.list file. Instead of my normal default:

[Default Applications]
text/plain=xed.desktop

[Added Associations]
text/plain=xed.desktop;

I now have this mess:

[Default Applications]
text/plain=xed.desktop
text/html=ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33087 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33086 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33092 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
pid 33096 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33095 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
pid 33099 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33098 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
pid 33102 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33101 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
pid 33105 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33104 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
pid 33108 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33107 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33110 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33115 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33125 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33130 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/ajgringo619/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 33135 != 33084, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
calibre-ebook-edit.desktop

Should I even ask how Steam is writing error messages to this file???

2

that’s weird what did you do?

3

I ran steam from the terminal a couple of times to see if anything would explain why the overlay wasn’t working.

4

In what game did the overlay not work?

5

All of them; only native Linux apps, no Proton games. For now, I’ve disabled the overlay and the Steam browser (saves me a ton of RAM). The only drawback is that I can’t create screenshots via Steam; just have to create them through normal Linux means instead.