Can't start CS:S, TF2:beta; unable to locate essential files

steamclosed duplicateNot a bug

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#1416 · opened 2013-02-08 by ManInTheGitHub · updated 2013-02-09 · 3 comments · github

MManInTheGitHub 2013-02-08 github

For starters: I did an apt-get remove --purge steam; followed by an apt-get autoremove --purge to get rid of all i386 dependencies installed; then proceeded with apt-get install steam64 (1.0.0.25).

When starting Counter Strike: source (or TF2: beta), the first attempt resulted in a black screen with a dialog saying: "Shader 'Bik' for material 'fullscreenvideomaterial' not found." (TF2 beta then also segfaults, uploaded as CrashID=bp-e0ab8bac-15d4-45f9-a127-590222130208)

Attempt two: add -novid to the command line arguments, this resulted in a different error:
"Can't find background image materials/Console/startup_loading.vtf"

System information from Steam:

Processor Information:
Vendor: GenuineIntel
Speed: 3201 Mhz
12 logical processors
6 physical processors
HyperThreading: Supported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Unsupported
SSE41: Supported
SSE42: Supported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (wheezy) (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.35
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11204000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce GTX 555/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.64
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 59 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x1206
Number of Monitors:  2
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1200
Desktop Resolution: 3200 x 1200
Primary Display Size: 20.39" x 12.76"  (24.02" diag)
                                        51.8cm x 32.4cm  (61.0cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM: 1023 MB
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x

Sound card:
Audio device:

Memory:
RAM: 7904 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: en_GB.ISO-8859-15
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 1877420 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 755994 Mb

Installed software:

Possibly worth noting:
SteamApps is a symlink to the SteamApps folder on a vfat partition, shared with a Windows 7 installation. This is a work computer and my home directory is actually an NFS mount with a quotum, so there's not enough room there for the SteamApps...

The steam install isn't completely broken though, cause for instance FTL starts with no problems.

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-02-08 github

This is breaking due to the symlink…
Use this method to have your SteamApps in a different location by default https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/258#issuecomment-11942412
If that resolves it, please close.

Bbdeen-valve maintainer 2013-02-08 github

Agreed. It's a dupe.

MManInTheGitHub 2013-02-09 github

I must admit I hadn't seen that bug report, as I only searched the open issues, sorry for creating a duplicate. But although I agree that that workaround might be a working hack (I'll test on Monday); with all due respect: it is still a bug and it should not create a segmentation fault.

Upstream links

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/258x1 2013-02