Left 4 Dead 2 fails to start

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#3611 · opened 2014-11-30 by joshuacox · updated 2018-06-01 · 6 comments · github

Jjoshuacox 2014-11-30 github

Left 4 Dead 2 was working great on my system, but it just stopped at some unknown point. I threw a 2>/tmp/debug on the end of the command to see what was erroring:

ERROR: ld.so: object '/mnt/valve/.steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 2864 != 2862, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/mnt/valve/.steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/mnt/valve/.steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
pid 2863 != 2862, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
ERROR: ld.so: object '/mnt/valve/.steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.

malloc: unknown:0: assertion botched
free: called with unallocated block argument
last command: (null)
Aborting...Aborted

that file is there

$ ls -lh /mnt/valve/.steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so
-rwxr-xr-x 1 bob bob 219K Nov 25 15:52 /mnt/valve/.steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so

should I delete my .steam folder and let steam re-retrieve all that? I'd rather learn to fix this in some way?

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2014-12-09 github

The gameoverlayrenderer messages are likely unrelated to the failure.

Jjoshuacox 2014-12-09 github

The other errors beg the question "can you share Steam Library folders between 64bit and 32bit linux's"? For example on this machine I have both 32 bit and 64 bit Debian testing, and both 64 and 32 bit arch linux partitions and I share the steam libraries amongst them all. But not with the windows partition.

Ggdrewb-valve maintainer 2014-12-10 github

There is no formal guarantee that any sharing works or will ever work, so usually you shouldn't do it. There's a chance it might work for the case you mention but you'd be on your own if anything strange happens.

Jjoshuacox 2014-12-10 github

Who's in charge of bandwidth at valve? This seems like an extremely wasteful position. I mean I appreciate that steam is like a library of my games online. But downloading a 35 gig game five times over for a single laptop seems excessively wasteful in bandwidth, disk usage, the whole nine yards.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-04-27 github

Hello @joshuacox, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-06-01 github

Closing pending feedback. Please use the Source-1-Games for future issue reports with Left 4 Dead 2.

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