This means the game was unable to connect to the running Steam instance. What is interesting is you have none of the usual spew from loading up to Steam. Check your steam client is up to date.
Steam itself is fully up-to-date and I just tried out the latest Half-Life patch.
Just saw this in my dmesg
[344700.299756] hl_linux[16515]: segfault at 0 ip 00000000f403b4d1 sp 00000000ffe90f60 error 4 in hw.so[f3f0c000+2bd000]
Why was this closed? I'm still seeing this
I still have the same problem after the steam update 2 days ago. Same terminal output but I get it when I try to start CS or HL.
I was able to fix this by completely removing Steam and any files associated with it in my home dir .steam/ .steampath .steampid Then I redownloaded Steam and everything works.
Thanks Lee, I will try that.
2013/2/6 Lee Trager [email protected]
I was able to fix this by completely removing Steam and any files
associated with it in my home dir .steam/ .steampath .steampid Then I
redownloaded Steam and everything works.—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/1017#issuecomment-13174540.
Vriendelijke groeten,
Sven Depoorter
I tried it and it didn't work. But then I opted out of the beta (again, because I tried that a couple of times) and opted back in and now everything works again. Thanks again Lee.
I played HL1 many years ago and since lost the CD. When I heard it came out on Linux I decided to buy it again through Steam on Linux. However now when I try to play it the Loading Half-life 1 loading box gets stuck on my screen unless I restart my window manager(cinnamon) and the game never starts!
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