ERROR: ld.so: object [libextest.so] cannot be preloaded

steamclosed Distro Family: Fedora

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#10771 · opened 2024-04-07 by Milliw · updated 2024-04-07 · 2 comments · github

MMilliw 2024-04-07 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): 1710458266
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Nobara 39
Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
Steam Logs: cmd generates empty file due to no log dir in that path
GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 Super

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Just saw this message appearing repeatedly in the logs. Seems to have no impact to me but thought reporting it would be good.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/steam/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Launch Steam.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-04-07 github

Hello @Milliw, this reads more like a harmless side effect of a third party tweak which is adding a LD_PRELOAD of libextest.so into Steam's environment before it is started.

Do you have any extra system packages that fiddle with libextest.so?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2024-04-07 github

Looking at this a bit more, this is definitely a harmless quirk of a third party tool and not Steam itself: https://github.com/Supreeeme/extest/issues/2#issuecomment-1484166855

If you want to pursue this further, take it up with that project.

Closing as not-our-bug.

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