Steam pretends to start, but doesn't?

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Hello all,

New to EndeavourOS, and I love it so far - but after installing steam, launching Steam caused the runtime update to occur… then nothing happened.

Running steam via terminal doesn’t show anything in particular, either - just goes through the routine runtime update check then… nothing. No login screen. It’s weird.

Any ideas?

Terminal dump:

steam.sh[3858]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[3858]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[3932]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[3858]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[pancake@ihop Desktop]$
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Can you share the output of pacman -Q | grep steam

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Only thing that outputs is this:

steam 1.0.0.74-1
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Hmm…you are using the normal steam package and it looks to have done it’s job.

Are there any crash details in the journal?

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When you installed steam it asked you two questions for additional packages to install. Which did you select?

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I didn’t receive any questions, actually, which I found odd, as the guide suggested I would be asked questions.
@dalto - not to sound like a complete novice, but I don’t have the faintest idea where to look for the journal.

Edit: if you mean bootstrap_log.txt, here it is:

[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] 1. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Verifying installation...
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Unable to read and verify install manifest /home/pancake/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12.installed
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Verification complete
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Downloading Update...
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Checking for available update...
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Downloading manifest: http://media.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Downloaded new manifest: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1647446817, installed version 0, existing pending version 0
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Package file tenfoot_misc_all.zip.1ca83d76835b4613170f5cead778b176b11f2b0c missing or incorrect size
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Package file tenfoot_dicts_all.zip.33245b7d523f68418283e93b0572508fa127ee8f missing or incorrect size
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Package file tenfoot_fonts_all.zip.vz.7673e4cd32b6752bc621d8bc1a7118a9af19b64a_12077027 missing or incorrect size
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Package file tenfoot_ambientsounds_all.zip.89b80bcfdd11b2b99257ddbbdc374e2df54e2738 missing or incorrect size
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Package file tenfoot_sounds_all.zip.vz.ffef2b2fc386819a842ea79484b966a937c2ca7e_1209792 missing or incorrect size
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Package file tenfoot_images_all.zip.vz.3068f03284bffd434b35a595a4075a61908f0f90_32858345 missing or incorrect size
[2022-04-01 07:58:03] Package file tenfoot_all.zip.vz.87942b60674a53ba540ad246afb56c82c901969c_2349863 missing or incorrect size
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Run steam. Right after it fails, run journalctl -b

Skip to the bottom of the journal with an uppercase G. Then scroll up and see if there is output from a steam crash.

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Doesn’t apppear to be anything related to Steam whatsoever, which is even more odd.

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Is it running?

What does ps ax | grep -i steam return?

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Looks like… it’s running? But the UI didn’t initialize?

   2056 ?        S      0:00 bash /home/pancake/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
   2185 ?        S      0:00 /home/pancake/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
   5921 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep -i steam
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Have you tried rebooting?

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Yes, tried rebooting.

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It looks to me like it is starting to start up but not complete its startup process.

It hasn’t crashed and is still running.

I am not sure how to troubleshoot that one.

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Which guide?

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Kill the running Steam processes (e.g. kill 2056), then run steam or steam-native in a terminal; this might provide more information.

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I’m getting the exact same error.

I just tried to kill the only 2 processes I could find for steam, and ran it again and got a different error. Hope that shed’s some light on the issue.

The two processes were;
24505 domarius 20 0 7952 4488 3564 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 bash /home/domarius/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh
24646 domarius 20 0 54252 30628 11752 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.06 /home/domarius/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam

[domarius@domarius-endeavour ~]$ kill 2326
[domarius@domarius-endeavour ~]$ kill 2463
[domarius@domarius-endeavour ~]$ steam
steam.sh[24505]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[24505]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[24580]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[24505]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2022-07-03 00:19:07] Startup - updater built Jun  7 2022 03:18:19
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1654574690)
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)

Yes that is the entire output, it hasn’t returned to a prompt.

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Just updated, and Steam doesn’t start anymore (even after several reboots).
Identical issue as this thread Steam pretends to start, but doesn't? - #13 by dalto

[domarius@domarius-endeavour ~]$ steam
steam.sh[2481]: Running Steam on endeavouros rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[2481]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[2555]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[2481]: Steam client’s requirements are satisfied
[domarius@domarius-endeavour ~]$

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Do you get the exact same log output?

If so, why did you start a new thread if it’s the exact same issue?

And what packages did you update, specifically?

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Sorry, I’ve updated the post to point to the correct thread. It’s the same output and the issue was never resolved. I guess if it’s recent enough it may be the same issue and worth posting there,

I go to reply and I get a warning about resurrecting a thread 3 months old. It makes me think it’s not the done thing here.

I’ll post there anyway, I got some different errors after trying what you said to do there.

Unless there is a way to recover a log for that information, that is lost to time. I just ran “UpdateInTerminal”.

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You might want to flag this thread for merging or closure if you’ve started posting somewhere else.

/var/log/pacman.log and the output of paclog (if it is installed).