Update: Happens with Counter Strike as well.

It’s being looked into, @martino-valve is assigned.

Still no fix?

I'm experiencing this as well. Had Half-Life 2 downloaded to an encrypted volume (xfs on cryptsetup on mdadm RAID 10), now I have to redownload it after the Steam-client has been offline for a while.

@madsl I learned to make a copy of all my games on Linux and WIndows as well, you never know when a problem might appear =)

@amarildojr that does leave us non-windows users out a bit in the cold though :) But as things are now, I can't have a Steam Library folder on an encrypted volume. But it did work to move the completed downloaded files over to a steam library folder that wasn't encrypted, and then reinstall the game to that library location. Steam now finds the files you placed there. Can't remember that feature in the Linux version before, so that's nice I guess...

It's also an issue with Ubuntu 13.04 x64

Basically any distro that encrypts the /home folder.

Full disk encryption on the other hand does not cause this.

Hi @alfred-valve . I don't have an encrypted /home folder anymore.

@alfred-valve No, because I use partition encryption now. But I know there are lost of people out there who are still facing this issue.

No one asked, but here is my "content_log.txt": https://gist.github.com/forever1percent/f0bcbd007b7d355542ea

Don't know if it's clear from the log, but with TF2 I tried to use files copied from Windows install

SteamCMD fails to validates files if you are using zfs or a non ext3/4 filesystem

During installation Ubuntu offers option to ecnrypt home directory, which puts all user files on ecryptfs. When verifying integrity of game cache, Steam tries to use Direct I/O (open with O_DIRECT flag), which is not implemented for encryptfs. Validation fails with"Validation: file locked" logged in content_log.txt and all game files are downloaded again, whether they are really broken or not.

Would it be possible to add immediate second open call without O_DIRECT, just after the first one (with O_DIRECT) fails with EINVAL, before giving up on a file completely? It's still better to have verification run slower than to redownload everything, isn't it?

Also having this issue.

I strongly suggest you either using the alternate install to encrypt THE DISK and not the /home folder, or move away from Ubuntu. Debian is way better.

I'm using Arch and never had this problem.

It is actually an eCryptfs directory that was carried over from an OEM Ubuntu install to Arch Linux. I am running Arch.

Then I would back up my data and re-install everything.

I use 4 partitions, 1 for /boot and the rest encrypted (root, swap, home). It's much safer than just encrypt the home folder.

I can put all the commands needed here, if you want.

Or even better install Windows 7, you'll have so much better gaming experience.

Why does Steam need to use O_DIRECT? https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/10/233

We're here to discuss Linux issues. We're not here because we want advises to install Windows.

But we're here to suggest someone with perfectly working Linux installation changing their Linux OS or partitions layout, only because there's one application using rare feature and only for rarely executed function - verification of cache integrity.

No, thank you.

That's the main thing. We're here to discuss this issue and try to find a solution. Windows is NOT a solution, otherwise we would be using it and not being here to discuss LINUX ISSUES.

Since I'm the only user of this machine I don't feel the need to encrypt the /home folder when I can encrypt the whole disk. My suggestion was to encrypt the disk and not the /home folder since it's a much more secure solution to privacy and also doesn't cause this bug to happen.

On the other hand my suggestion is not to use O_DIRECT, which is deprecated and strongly advised against by the very creator of the system we're all running.

@martino-valve: are you alive? do you care to comment?

I don't get it too :)

And Valve probably doesn't care for this thread anymore. Otherwise it would be fixed a long time ago. It's a shame that it's been almost 8 months and yet they didn't fix this. Clearly their goal on the desktop market isn't as big as the one on SteamOS, which is based off of Debian and won't have any /home encryption.

Any news on this @martino-valve, @alfred-valve? I'm still hitting this issue on ZFS, because O_DIRECT is not supported. @goooooal's suggestion[1] should do the trick for us users with "rare" filesystems. Let me know if I can be of any use testing anything or providing any logs. ZFS snapshots and rollbacking make it easy to test this while not having to redownload the full game :-)

[1] https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/2515#issuecomment-27282139

This is STILL broken. Seriously, it's been more than a year... are you going to fix it or not?

Probably not. Too bad Valve doesn't care much for this and other bugs. I thought they were an excelent company.

I added a Steam Library folder at /opt/SteamLibrary and I'm installing me games there. I bet it should work. Probably you will have to make the folder with sudo mkdir /opt/SteamLibrary and use sudo chown username:username /opt/SteamLibrary to give your user permission to the folder.

I have the same issue (all games fail to pass the validation and being re-downloaded every time) with ReiserFS + encyptfs on Ubuntu 14.04 (yes, I'm aware that Canonical will probably drop support for Reiser v3 in future releases)

I'm experiencing this bug too.

I am also experiencing this issue. If Valve doesn't intend to fix it I wish they would just tell us.

I have this problem with steam installed on an encrypted partition and the library on an unionfs mount.

Seriously? VALVe still haven't fixed this?

Hi,

Can you try this scenario with today's Beta client?

Looks good to me. Made a new user on my Ubuntu 15.10 laptop with sudo adduser --encrypted-home test-steam, logged in, opted into the beta and downloaded a few small games. So encryptfs on top of Ext4. Both VVVVVV and Papers, Please pass the cache verification just fine, even after restarting the Steam client and a full reboot of the laptop.

Would love to hear what is happening with other filesystems people are using.

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work with ReiserFS and completely re-downloads the files
Edit: I wasn't running the latest beta version of the client

Are you sure you are running the Beta branch and got tonight's update? If so, next step would be to capture an strace log of the issue and try to identify where the problem is.

Yes, sorry. I jumped to conclusion too early: I thought I had the latest version of Steam, though, I hadn't. Fixed for me as well (tried on OlliOlli and Sid Meier's Civillization V). Thank you, VALVe!

Thanks for double-checking. Going to close this now, feel free to file another issue if running into more problems.

Nicely done. It only took 2 years to solve it hehehe.