Steam refusing to launch

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Steam refusing to launch

26 March 2023, 18:35:07

I recently changed the mountpoint of one of my drives and now Steam doesnt want to launch. When I try to run it I get the following error:

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steam.sh[7090]: Running Steam on artix rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[7090]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[7162]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[7090]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'. International characters may not work.

I have tried removing all files I can find in my user directory but this has not helped me at all. Does anyone have any ideas on what might be wrong and how to fix this?

Re: Steam refusing to launch

Reply #1 – 26 March 2023, 19:55:32

Some details of how, where, what, you changed regarding mount points might be useful.

What GPU + driver do you use?

Re: Steam refusing to launch

Reply #2 – 26 March 2023, 20:21:34

Quote from: gripped – on 26 March 2023, 19:55:32

Some details of how, where, what, you changed regarding mount points might be useful.

What GPU + driver do you use?

I changed the mountpoint of a HDD which was previously mounted to /home to /home/tadhg/hdd (tadhg is the only user on this system), I backed up only some of the files in the tadhg directory, and none of these were steam files. In remounting I ran into a few issues which saw me delete and re-add the user tadhg several times in attempts to fix it (I fixed those issues though).

I am using a Nvidia 2070 Super and when I checked my driver I realised that I was using the nvidia dirver, I swapped to nvidia-open as it is recommended for my card and now i get a different error from Steam. My new error message is:

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steam.sh[3233]: Running Steam on artix rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[3233]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[3305]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[3233]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
WARNING: setlocale('en_US.UTF-8') failed, using locale: 'C'. International characters may not work.
[2023-03-26 19:20:20] Startup - updater built Feb 14 2023 00:47:09
[2023-03-26 19:20:20] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/tadhg/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)

. Upon further inspection I noticed that the reason that I was getting the previous error was because steam was already running.

Re: Steam refusing to launch

Reply #3 – 26 March 2023, 21:03:05

Can you post the output of this please.

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pacman -Qs nvidia

Re: Steam refusing to launch

Reply #4 – 26 March 2023, 21:21:11

Quote from: gripped – on 26 March 2023, 21:03:05

Can you post the output of this please.
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pacman -Qs nvidia

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local/egl-wayland 2:1.1.11-3
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 530.41.03-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/libvdpau 1.5-1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 525.89.02-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/nvidia-open 525.89.02-11
    NVIDIA open kernel modules
local/nvidia-settings 525.89.02-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 525.89.02-2
    NVIDIA drivers utilities

Re: Steam refusing to launch

Reply #5 – 26 March 2023, 22:32:06

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local/lib32-nvidia-utils 530.41.03-1
local/nvidia-open 525.89.02-11
local/nvidia-utils 525.89.02-2

The versions need to match
lib32-nvidia-utils 530.41.03-1 wherever it's come from (?) needs to be downgraded to version 525.89.02-1