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Portal instantly crashes when ran natively no matter what

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#11827 · opened 2025-03-16 by Sandwich4780 · updated 2025-03-16 · 1 comments · github
SSandwich4780 2025-03-16 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Tue, Mar 11 2:39 PM UTC -08:00
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes
  • Steam Logs:

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  • GPU: Nvidia (RTX 4060)

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Whenever I try to launch Portal, the game crashes without anything popping up, steam says the game is running for a few seconds before it goes back to saying "play". I thought maybe some files were broken, so I reinstalled and verified the game's file integrity, but that did not fix the issue. Then I tried updating my gpu drivers, but those were already up to date (as was my os and steam). The game launches when I force use Proton, but it just won't launch natively for me (even though Portal has native Linux support). When I try to run the game via console by running the hl2.sh file with the command: "./hl2.sh", I get the error "Failed to load the launcher", and when running the main executable (hl2_linux) by using the command "./hl2_linux", I get the error " ./hl2_linux: error while loading shared libraries: libmimalloc.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory". The file libmimalloc.so file exists at the location Portal/bin/libmalloc.so, so I have no idea why it says the file doesn't exist. Any help would be appreciated :)

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2025-03-16 github

Hello @Sandwich4780, [2025-03-15 19:00:47] failed to dlopen /mnt/hdd/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Portal/bin/engine.so error=/mnt/hdd/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Portal/bin/engine.so: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Invalid argument in your console-linux.txt log makes this issue a duplicate of https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games/issues/6982. Closing in favor of the older issue report.

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