Artix Linux Forum

After updating numerous times, rebooting about five times, and doing

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# pacman -S steam

to reinstall Steam, the program still will not open, and when attempting to open it with a terminal, it gives me this:

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[tyler@desktop ~]$ steam
steam.sh[4815]: Running Steam on artix rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[4815]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[4888]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[4815]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
max open descriptors set to 4096
[tyler@desktop ~]$ 

After this message, nothing happens, and trying to open the program through GUI nets a similar result of loading for less than five seconds before just closing. If it's an init-system problem, then I'm using the OpenRC init-system, and I am using the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

If anybody could help me diagnose the issue, or if anyone else if having a similar issue with Steam, I would love to hear any feedback!

Not an init issue. Too many open files on your computer 4096 is the limit.

You can increase the limit:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-increase-the-maximum-number-of-open-files/

Do you have the en_US.UTF-8 locale generated?

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[tyler@desktop ~]$ cat /etc/locale.conf
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

It doesn't mean that it is generated, use the following command to check this (but I guess it is generated, you would have had other issues if it wasn't):

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$ locale -a

Have you followed the instructions on the wiki to install Steam?

I guess you can search stuff there then.

The thing is that this error is really meaningless and different issues bring to nearly the same result.

I am also currently running an Artix machine with novideo proprietary drivers and steam works well so if anyone else can reproduce the issue maybe we would have more information.

After talking to someone on Github about it, the issue might be that these two packages might be out of sync and causing problems:

lib32-nvidia-utils 510.47.03-1 & nvidia 495.46-2

How can I go about downgrading lib32-nvidida-utils to version 495.46-2?

And again, thank you for all the help so far, I feel this may be the last step in solving my issue.