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NFS mount points not includied in the list of drives when adding a new steam library folder

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10381 · opened 2024-01-14 by wind0204 · updated 2024-01-14 · 1 comments · github
Wwind0204 2024-01-14 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1705108172

  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 22.04.3 // I don't remember how I installed steam but the Steam package from the official repository of Ubuntu was not installed, I guess it was directly from valve?

  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No

  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

  • Steam Logs:
    steam-logs.tar.gz

  • GPU: Intel (Embedded in CPU)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

The screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/Fbau5Jm
I expected that when you press the button for adding a new steam library folder the list of drives should also include network file systems' mount points in the list, but it was not in the list, so I had to choose "let me choose another location", but when I chose that, the next window that popped up was just a dummy window with no function, Nothing happened when I click NEW FOLDER, or SELECT.

In the end I had to make a library folder in another drive and then shut down steam and then move the new steam library folder to the desired location in the network file system, and then manually change the path of the drive in ~/.steam/root/steam/steamapps/libraryfolders.vdf to the new location.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Go to Settings
  2. Click Storage tab
  3. Click the drive that is currently chosen, and then choose Add Drive

Thank you

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-01-14 github

Hello @wind0204, this issue is already being tracked at #10145.

Regarding the file picker UI, Steam now defaults to using xdg-desktop-portal when possible and Desktop portal not supported, falling back to a different file picker in your console_log.txt log file tells us that Steam tried to use it, but was it was unusable or missing. Looking elsewhere in that log, ExecCommandLine: "'/home/dewr/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' -foreground" tells us that you're using the distro-modified Steam package, so this dependency issue with xdg-desktop-portal should be mentioned to your distro's package maintainer(s) for Steam.

Regarding the fallback file picker, that issue has been mentioned on a handful of other issue reports like #9640.

Closing as a duplicate.

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