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Add messages for OS drive permission errors on game launch

protonopen Feature Request
ValveSoftware/Proton#3793 · opened 2020-04-23 by tsilvs · updated 2020-04-23 · 0 comments · github
Ttsilvs 2020-04-23 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Apr 4 2020, at 00:37:27
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Pop!_OS 19.10
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Installed a game on a separate NTFS HDD in additional SteamLibrary. Games didn't launch with Proton, just went through preparation progress bar modal and silently refused to launch. After a couple of days and troubleshooting threads on Reddit I finally went to check error.log and found out that I didn't have enough permissions to work with the drive. Fixed with editing fstab.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Install Steam for Linux client
  2. Enable Steam Play for all other titles
  3. Install a non-native game (e.g. ASTRONEER, DOOM 2016) on a secondary drive (not the one with the system, e.g. /mnt/data)
  4. Try to launch installed game from Steam client

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