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Client repeatedly downloads and deletes Windows redists for a game with native Linux version

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#12587 · opened 2025-12-25 by jn64 · updated 2025-12-27 · 0 comments · github
Jjn64 2025-12-25 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1766451605
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 43
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
  • Steam Logs: see below
  • GPU: NA

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Since the last week or so, when starting Steam, I repeatedly get updates for 2 apps: Bastion (107100) and Steamworks Common Redistributables (228980).

I have the native Linux version of Bastion installed; global compat tool is Proton 10, no compat tool set for the game. Neither Linux nor Windows versions of the game have changed in years. The Windows version apparently depends on .NET Redist 4.0, which also hasn't changed in years.

I have all updates set to manual. What happens is:

  1. I start the update for Steamworks Common Redists. 3 files are added (the 3 files from .NET Redist 4.0)
  2. I start the update for Bastion. No files change in either Bastion or Steamworks Common Redists.
  3. At this point, another update appears for Steamworks Common Redists. I start it; the same 3 files are removed.

Something similar with spurious updates of redists was reported in #9847, but I have a single Steam library location on desktop, and the problem only started recently even though I have had Bastion installed for years.

The 3 files being added/removed:

65e064258f2e418816b304f646ff9e87af101e4c9552ab064bb74d281c38659f  /home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Steamworks Shared/_CommonRedist/DotNet/4.0/dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe
6d713f963ab4dadcc61b38080a71fa50ddbcaca64046ef2f1162708a8e121336  /home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Steamworks Shared/_CommonRedist/DotNet/4.0/installscript.vdf
89ad8b45d05977b5cf39105fb3fe82ebe17a3199c7a366ed71879aea9ae726d6  /home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Steamworks Shared/_CommonRedist/DotNet/4.0/Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.cmd
Annotated content_log.txt 
# Start Steam, get 2 updates for 107100 and 228980
[2025-12-25 20:21:12] Client version: 1766451605
[2025-12-25 20:21:12] Loaded Steam library folders configuration: /home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/libraryfolders.vdf
[2025-12-25 20:21:12] Loaded 54 apps from install folder "/home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps\appmanifest_*.acf".
[2025-12-25 20:21:12] Triggered async write of Steam library folders configuration (1 libraries).
[2025-12-25 20:21:14] Dependency added: parent 228980, child 107100, depot 228984
[2025-12-25 20:21:14] Dependency added: parent 228980, child 107100, depot 229002
[2025-12-25 20:21:14] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:21:14] AppID 107100 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed, (Update delayed for 364250 secs)
[2025-12-25 20:21:14] AppID 107100 config changed : added depots 107103,107101
[2025-12-25 20:21:14] AppID 107100 config changed : removed depots 107106
[2025-12-25 20:21:38] AppID 107100 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Prefetching Info, (Update delayed for 364226 secs)
[2025-12-25 20:21:38] AppID 107100 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed, (Update delayed for 364226 secs)
[2025-12-25 20:21:38] AppID 107100 update prefetch finished : 0 bytes to download, 0 bytes to stage
[2025-12-25 20:21:38] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Prefetching Info, (Update delayed for 467460 secs)
[2025-12-25 20:21:38] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed, (Update delayed for 467460 secs)
[2025-12-25 20:21:38] AppID 228980 update prefetch finished : 50365280 bytes to download, 0 bytes to stage

# Start update for Steamworks Common Redistributables (3 files added for .NET 4.0 Redist)
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 scheduler update : Priority Manual, not played for 1766666541 seconds, update disabled for 0 seconds
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued, (Update delayed for 466217 secs)
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Reconfiguring,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Verifying Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Preallocating,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 preallocated 0 files (0 MB) 
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 update started : download 0/50365280, store 0/0, reuse 0/0, delta 0/0, stage 0/50450161 
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,Update Started,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Downloading,Staging,
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] Got 17 download sources and 0 caching proxies via ContentServerDirectoryService::BYieldingGetServersForSteamPipe (CellID 35 / Launcher 0)
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] Moving to source priority class '3'
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] Created download interface of type 'SteamCache' (7) to host cache9-sgp1.steamcontent.com (cache9-sgp1.steamcontent.com)
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] Created download interface of type 'SteamCache' (7) to host cache7-sgp1.steamcontent.com (cache7-sgp1.steamcontent.com)
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] Created download interface of type 'SteamCache' (7) to host cache5-sgp1.steamcontent.com (cache5-sgp1.steamcontent.com)
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] Downloading 51 chunks for depot 229002 (7260605429366465749)
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] HTTP/2 available
[2025-12-25 20:42:21] Created dual-stack http client
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Committing,
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 starting commit from "/home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/downloading/228980" to "/home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Steamworks Shared" : 3 updated, 0 moved, 0 deleted files
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 state changed : Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 finished update, 13 mounted depots (BuildID 19222509) : 228982 (6413394087650432851),228983 (8124929965194586177),228984 (2547553897526095397),228986 (8782296191957114623),228987 (4302102680580581867),228988 (6645201662696499616),228989 (3514306556860204959),228990 (1829726630299308803),229002 (7260605429366465749),229003 (8740933542064151477),229006 (1784011429307107530),229007 (4477590687906973371),229012 (4353723233161159493),
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 App update changed : None
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 state changed : Fully Installed,Update Queued,
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 state changed : Fully Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:42:24] AppID 228980 scheduler finished : removed from schedule (result No Error, state 0xc) 
[2025-12-25 20:43:23] HTTPS (SteamCache,195) - cache5-sgp1.steamcontent.com ([2404:3fc0:0:106::670a:7c5a]:443 / [2404:3fc0:0:106::670a:7c5a]:443, host: cache5-sgp1.steamcontent.com): Closing connection
[2025-12-25 20:43:24] HTTPS (SteamCache,166) - cache7-sgp1.steamcontent.com ([2404:3fc0:0:106::670a:7c5c]:443 / [2404:3fc0:0:106::670a:7c5c]:443, host: cache7-sgp1.steamcontent.com): Closing connection
[2025-12-25 20:43:25] HTTPS (SteamCache,293) - cache9-sgp1.steamcontent.com ([2404:3fc0:0:106::670a:7c44]:443 / [2404:3fc0:0:106::670a:7c44]:443, host: cache9-sgp1.steamcontent.com): Closing connection

# Start update for Bastion (0 files changed)
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 scheduler update : Priority Manual, not played for 50385378 seconds, update disabled for 0 seconds
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued, (Update delayed for 362887 secs)
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,Reconfiguring,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,Verifying Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 has no changes, 1 active: 107106 (3420657565557640459), 1 target: 107106 (3420657565557640459),
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,Update Started,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,Staging,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,Committing,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 starting commit from "/home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/downloading/107100" to "/home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Bastion" : 0 updated, 0 moved, 0 deleted files
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 state changed : Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 finished update, 1 mounted depots (BuildID 3406487) : 107106 (3420657565557640459),
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 App update changed : None
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 state changed : Fully Installed,Update Queued,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] Dependency removed: parent 228980, child 107100, depot 228984
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] Dependency removed: parent 228980, child 107100, depot 229002
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 state changed : Fully Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 107100 scheduler finished : removed from schedule (result No Error, state 0xc) 
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Prefetching Info,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:43:57] AppID 228980 update prefetch finished : 0 bytes to download, 0 bytes to stage

# Start update for Steamworks Common Redistributables (same 3 files removed)
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 scheduler update : Priority Manual, not played for 1766666712 seconds, update disabled for 0 seconds
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Reconfiguring,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Verifying Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 has no changes, 13 active: 228982 (6413394087650432851),228983 (8124929965194586177),228984 (2547553897526095397),228986 (8782296191957114623),228987 (4302102680580581867),228988 (6645201662696499616),228989 (3514306556860204959),228990 (1829726630299308803),229002 (7260605429366465749),229003 (8740933542064151477),229006 (1784011429307107530),229007 (4477590687906973371),229012 (4353723233161159493), 12 target: 228982 (6413394087650432851),228983 (8124929965194586177),228984 (2547553897526095397),228986 (8782296191957114623),228987 (4302102680580581867),228988 (6645201662696499616),228989 (3514306556860204959),228990 (1829726630299308803),229003 (8740933542064151477),229006 (1784011429307107530),229007 (4477590687906973371),229012 (4353723233161159493),
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 state changed : Update Required,Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,Update Started,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Staging,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,Committing,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 starting commit from "/home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/downloading/228980" to "/home/jn/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Steamworks Shared" : 0 updated, 0 moved, 3 deleted files
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 state changed : Fully Installed,Update Queued,Update Running,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 finished update, 12 mounted depots (BuildID 19222509) : 228982 (6413394087650432851),228983 (8124929965194586177),228984 (2547553897526095397),228986 (8782296191957114623),228987 (4302102680580581867),228988 (6645201662696499616),228989 (3514306556860204959),228990 (1829726630299308803),229003 (8740933542064151477),229006 (1784011429307107530),229007 (4477590687906973371),229012 (4353723233161159493),
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : Running Update,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 App update changed : None
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 state changed : Fully Installed,Update Queued,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 state changed : Fully Installed,
[2025-12-25 20:45:12] AppID 228980 scheduler finished : removed from schedule (result No Error, state 0xc)

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