Thanks for reporting, this is a 3rd party issue so its likely this bug will be closed. Would you look at https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/654#issuecomment-13801510 and then check your hostname output. afaik @urkle fixed it so the game wouldn’t crash with incorrectly configured hostnames, but it is still an issue to some.

Yeah, I've seen that issue. My hostname is correctly set and resolves. And I never experienced any crashes with defcon. It just fails to authenticate.

Could you provide some terminal output from steam+defcon running please.

Here you are:
https://gist.github.com/theli-ua/5354787

Can you look at the Steam/SteamApps/common/defcon/authkey file and see if the first "word" is STEAM or DEMO ?

then remove the file completely and re-launch defcon from within steam and see if it works.

it was DEMO , deleted, launched => DEFCON failed to authenticate and created another DEMO key :(

very strange. Can you try w/ the runtime disabled (just to rule it out)

STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam

I tried that before, (and now tried again, deleted, launched with disabled runtime). Still the same result.

have you tried logging out and back into steam? have you tried re-installing steam?

Just tried, still the same result (and I also tried deleting local content and redownloading DEFCON)

I'll transfer valid authkey from my other PC and will see if that changes anything.

putting the valid STEAMF- key in authkey does not change anything on this system

I figured it wouldn't.. Basically upon launch Defcon ALWAYS re-validates against steam. It really looks like some issue w/ steam running on your box..

What is your hostname? (type hostname) and what does that resolve to.. (host hostname) ?

I'm not near that box atm, But its something like a.romanov.gentoo and resolves to 127.0.0.1

I posted to the steamworks list with the "underbelly" of what does this auth to make sure that is correct (peer review !!!).. but verify that once you get back to the box..

can env vars such as http_proxy or seomthing like that interfere? (dunno what auth does but just in case)

not really sure.. the game is just calling a Steam SDK API call to "authenticate" w/ their server.. But it's worth a try to see if that fixes things..

hostname ; ping $(hostname)
a.romanov.gentoo
PING localhost (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.

Could some connectivity issue with some introversion server cause that?
I can also provide a pcap dump of network activity from steam+defcon

I believe there are some connectivity issues with metaserver.introversio.co.uk . Am I right that this may cause these authentication issues?
If so, then this issue can just be close I suppose.

Does multiwinia work on your system? As it's using the same bit of auth code.

Ill be back near that box on Monday. And will check multivinia too.
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Does multiwinia work on your system? As it's using the same bit of auth
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Sorry, forgot about this.
So, Multiwinia is just stuck at "AUTHENTICATION STATUS: UNKNOWN"

@kisak-valve I have absolutely no memory of this issues but I set a reminder to retest tonight.

I was unable to reproduce this anymore.