[Steam client] Connection error on startup

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#2119 · opened 2013-03-08 by randallm · updated 2013-06-17 · 5 comments · github

Rrandallm 2013-03-08 github

Launching steam causes a "connection error" popup to appear. Steam starts in offline mode just fine, but when I try and "retry connection", the client launches for ~1s and then crashes immediately.

Console dump: https://gist.github.com/randallm/6478c089fc885ae2038f
Running latest version of Steam from Arch Linux repos.

Cchipgw 2013-03-09 github

same basic issue here, and when I press "Quit" it says "Exiting" then opens in offline mode. I got around the connection error by reinstalling steam, but that only worked until reboot. (Arch Linux 64bit KDE)

Sscottlu 2013-03-14 github

randallm, did you ever enter offline mode manually (via the menu?)

Can you check ~/.steam/registry.vdf, and check for this key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Valve\Steam\Offline

See if it set to 1.

As for the crash, I will try to reproduce that here.

Thanks.

Rrandallm 2013-03-14 github

If you're talking about entering offline mode through the Connection Error dialog box, I have.

cat .steam/registry.vdf | grep Offline

Reveals that Offline is set to 1. Changing it to 0 manually caused a steam update to trigger, but the issue still remains.

Rrandallm 2013-03-23 github

Problem appears to be fixed after a complete reinstall (manual deletion of .steam and .local/share/steam folders)

Ccjaymartin 2013-06-17 github

I'm trying to reinstall Steam (for the 4th time) to see if it helps.

I'm experiencing this issue, as well... Perhaps this isn't a "closed" type of issue, since it seems to hit several users pretty hard.

Nothing extracted yet.