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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#13134 · opened 2026-04-30 by FlorianAnders · updated 2026-05-01 · 3 comments · github
FFlorianAnders 2026-04-30 github

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

launching Steam does not work, trying launching from console yields:

/usr/bin/steam: line 316: exec: /home/florian/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: cannot execute: Exec format error

Looking at the mentioned .sh file: it is empty.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Install Steam
  2. Launch Steam
  3. Stare onto Desktop
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-04-30 github

Hello @FlorianAnders, if you remove the empty file, does it get regenerated the next time you tell Steam to start?

FFlorianAnders 2026-05-01 github

Hello @kisak-valve, yes it gets regenerated. However now I get the message:

"Error: Couldn't set up the Steam Runtime. Are you running low on disk space?"

And I think that 300GB is plenty free space. Having looked for the error, I was led to this command:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/lib" steam

Which then yields the error as an actual window instead of the terminal. This is however the end of how far I got. It is still not possible to launch steam.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2026-05-01 github

We could probably move/remove the steam-runtime folder in ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/ to get Steam to regenerate that, but functionally it's just treating the next symptom. The question that a Steam dev would want to ponder is how to reliably reproduce whatever happened to cause Steam to have zeroed out files.

Nothing extracted yet.