What is “light up”?
And what do you mean you “downloaded it through both PacMan and Bazzar.”?
Does your computer/notebook have a iGPU ? If yes make sure steam is using the dGPU.
If you open the terminal and just write steam in it you can see if there are any errors.
I’m typing in Steam and it displays blank text.
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Run Steam using:
/usr/bin/steam
Then please copy/paste what it outputs to the command line, here.
Is it installed ?
pacman -S steam
@LoverCats was able to confirm Steam was installed, although the details are locked up in the image above. In hindsight I gave a more complicated command than necessary because I was originally going to check for a couple things.
@LoverCats’s output was:
$ yay -Q | grep -E 'steam'
steam 1.0.0.85-7
steam-devices 1.0.0.85-7
yes
First there was a Steam update, after which it wouldn’t start.
Please share the output from running it from the command line.
then I received a notification that the helper was not responding
Can you give more precise instructions?
Open up the terminal, then run Steam using:
/usr/bin/steam
After it fails to start, copy and paste the terminal output, here.
steam.sh\[13894\]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh\[13894\]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh\[13947\]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh\[13894\]: Log already open
steam.sh\[13894\]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Startup - updater built May 27 2026 21:21:12
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened'
05/28 18:23:54 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
05/28 18:23:54 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1779918128)/tid(14001)
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Process started with command-line: '/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-child-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logg
er-opened'
05/28 18:23:54 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Using update UI: xwin
05/28 18:23:54 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(14002)
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Create window
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 400, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Verifying installation...
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Verifying file sizes only
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Set percent complete: 0
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Set percent complete: -1
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Set status message: Verifying installation...
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Destroy window
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/logs
\[2026-05-28 18:23:54\] Shutdown
XOpenIM() failed, LANG = ru_RU.UTF-8
XOpenIM() failed, LANG = ru_RU.UTF-8XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf64ff370
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf64fdcc0
05/28 18:23:55 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
05/28 18:23:55 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamsysinfo)/version(1779918128)/tid(14009)
Running query: 1 - GpuTopology
Response: gpu_topology {
gpus {
id: 1
name: "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti"
vram_size_bytes: 4552916992
driver_id: k_EGpuDriverId_NvidiaProprietary
driver_version_major: 580
driver_version_minor: 159
driver_version_patch: 4
luid: 0
}
default_gpu_id: 1
}
Exit code: 0
Saving response to: /tmp/steampogCkM - 54 bytes
steamwebhelper.sh\[14014\]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/
\_v2-entry-point
steamwebhelper.sh\[14014\]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/\_v2-entry-poi
nt
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 14159
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=14001 -buildid=1779918128 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home
/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=0 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/love
rcats1/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -use_xcomposite_workaround --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --disable-gpu-compositing --disab
le-gpu --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-component-update --gaia-url=http://disabled.inv
alid --disable-features=WinRetrieveSuggestionsOnlyOnDemand,SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,BlockPromptsIfIgnoredOften,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC
^Asteamwebhelper.sh\[14306\]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamr
t/\_v2-entry-point
steamwebhelper.sh\[14306\]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/\_v2-entry-poi
nt
exec ./steamwebhelper -nocrashdialog -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=14001 -buildid=1779918128 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home
/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=1 -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/love
rcats1/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -use_xcomposite_workaround --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --disable-gpu-compositing --disab
le-gpu --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/lovercats1/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --disable-component-update --gaia-url=http://disabled.inv
alid --disable-features=WinRetrieveSuggestionsOnlyOnDemand,SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal,BlockPromptsIfIgnoredOften,ValveFFmpegAllowLowDelayHEVC
after which steam was able to start, but just now
Oh, that worked?
Is there something wrong with your desktop shortcut perhaps?
I launch it using the “Win” button, and it only launches when it wants to.