Steam wont start on arch linux even though it did yesterday

steamopen NVIDIA driversDistro Family: Arch

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10465 · opened 2024-02-05 by Supervisor360 · updated 2024-02-17 · 5 comments · github

SSupervisor360 2024-02-05 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): 06/02/24
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch
Opted into Steam client beta?: [No]
Have you checked for system updates?: [No]
Steam Logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs]
GPU: Nvidia

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

Steps for reproducing this issue:

go to terminal
start steam using terminal
Error shows

Everytime i try to start the fucking steam client this error pops up and it is infuriating! it worked yesterday but now its being a massive cuck and just giving this error everytime itry to start. I even check the fucking Htop and it says ITS RUNNING! IT FUCKING WORKED YESTERDAY WHY NO WORK NOW? it pisses me off

steam.sh[3881]: Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[3881]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[3956]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[3881]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
tid(4000) burning pthread_key_t == 0 so we never use it
[2024-02-05 11:49:09] Startup - updater built Jan 13 2024 00:51:43
[2024-02-05 11:49:09] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/puro/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-vgui'
02/05 11:49:09 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1705108172)/tid(4000)
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-02-05 github

Hello @Supervisor360, can you test if any 32 bit OpenGL application like glxinfo32 from lib32-mesa-utils works?

Hhjpaul7 2024-02-06 github

I had this happen as well with steam running via terminal. But it was spamming "Maximum number of clients reached" in the terminal after Steam had updated itself. Allowing me to not spawn anymore terminals or applications. Not sure if it's 100% related though.

Ggarpu 2024-02-06 github

Slackware-current is having this problem, too, after upgrading to glibc 2.39. Nearly as we can tell it's an issue with nvidia's libGLX and glibc built with binutils 2.42. If you run Steam with a debugger, it'll load. (Same for any 32-bit OpenGL program, like glxgears or glxinfo.)

Full discussion here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/32-bit-glx-nvidia-not-working-after-update-unless-running-with-strace-4175733503/

And all credit and props to af7567, who did all the heavy lifting and compiles today of glibc and binutils.

The people who seem to be having problems are using 535 and above for drivers. One person who was using 470 wasn't having problems.

Aangrypig555 2024-02-06 github

same too, also have to terminate steam every time in htop

EDIT: its probably a bug with the nvidia drivers because i cant even reinstall them. Logs say that the code has errors like = instead of ==

Iipaqmaster 2024-02-17 github

It seems my Steam issues are of a different nature.

I've moved my issues with Steam today to its own thread as the problem I'm having doesn't seem to be related to system updates (I have done none since the last time Steam worked) nor rendering problems: #10504

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