Fatal Error: Failed to load steamui.so

steamclosed reviewedSteam client

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#3318 · opened 2014-05-22 by MichaelJCole · updated 2014-05-22 · 1 comments · github

MMichaelJCole 2014-05-22 github

Hi, steam was working, then it stopped. Steam updated, but my network connection died during the download. I restarted steam and ended up with this.

ia32-libs is installed.

From the command line:

Running Steam on linuxmint 16 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1400690891_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1400690891_client)

If found some libGL.so posts, but it seems fine:

☀  find /usr/lib -name libGL.so.1 | grep -P '(32|386)' 2> /dev/null
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa/libGL.so.1

☀  cat /etc/ld.so.conf.d/steam.conf                      
/usr/lib32
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa

Someone mentioned that optirun was a workaround, but it doesn't seem to help:

☀  optirun steam
Running Steam on linuxmint 16 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1400690891_client)
Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1400690891_client)
Xlib:  extension "NV-GLX" missing on display ":0".

☀  uname -a                                                                                                       
Linux mc-desktop 3.11.0-12-generic [#19](/issue/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/19)-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 9 16:20:46 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

michael@mc-desktop ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32
☀  cat /etc/lsb-release 
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16
DISTRIB_CODENAME=petra
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 16 Petra"

What's up with that?

MMichaelJCole 2014-05-22 github

The fix was to mv ~/.local/share/Steam ~/.local/share/Steam.old
then run steam
the updated auto updates the app.

Nothing extracted yet.