Steam beta pipewire issue today

General system Gaming, sound and video
1

Just a heads up, the beta steam client pushed an update today which prevented steam (steam-native, not runtime) from loading on my system - error said I had libpipewire-0.3.so missing.

I installed lib32-pipewire from the AUR which seems to have fixed the problem.

Just in case the same thing happens to you today :slight_smile:

1 Like
2

This might want to be added as a dep to https://archlinux.org/packages/multilib/x86_64/steam-native-runtime/, unless it should be provided by lib32-libpulseā€¦ :thinking:

1 Like
3

I might have posted too hastily:

That AUR package fixed the error message, but Steam now hangs (or at least becomes unresponsive) at the Connecting Steam account: xxxā€¦ window. So it wasnā€™t a total solution after all.

The workaround for me for the time being is simply to use steam-runtimeā€¦ it still starts without issue.

4

For reference, https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/71005

5

can confirm, iā€™m having the same issue

6

Steam Native is still hanging for me when trying to login to my account. Any else still experiencing that or have a solution?

7

Also happening for me, from my searches this apparently happens when some native libraries are just the incorrect version.

Iā€™ve reverted to using

STEAM_RUNTIME=1 STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=1 steam

for now.

8

Thought I might add that ā€˜steam-nativeā€™ broke after it self updated the past 3 days.

Error in Terminal:

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1623193086)
[2021-06-10 22:01:04] Verifying installation...
[2021-06-10 22:01:04] Verification complete
Failed to load steamui.so - dlerror(): libpipewire-0.3.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[2021-06-10 22:01:09] Shutdown

You donā€™t need to install ā€™ libpipewire-0.3.so.0ā€™, because steam-native will lockup when attempting to login.

You can use steam-runtime to launch steam.

Alternatively some people have removed ā€˜steam-nativeā€™ and replaced it with steam flatpak version

(I have not tested this yet).

Source:

9

Confirmed that I am now using Steam Runtime for now till we get a fix. I summarized my research at the bottom of your thead.

10

Update your system, this was fixed in steam-native-runtime 1.0.0.70-2. :wink:

11

Thanks. Iā€™m on the Manjaro Stable slow boat still ( steam-native-runtime 1.0.0.70-1ā€™ on my system). So ā€¦ (dance like an old man knowing he needs to re-build his laptop) :stuck_out_tongue: . Maybe end of the month I will get the update.

12

I meanā€¦

You can get it soonerā€¦ switch to EnOS. :wink:

4 Likes