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Steam is trying to open games in "steamapps" not "SteamApps"

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#4221 · opened 2015-12-31 by abc-mikey · updated 2021-02-05 · 9 comments · github
Aabc-mikey 2015-12-31 github

As of today steam has started tying to open games that were running in:

/mnt/Games/Games/steamapps/common/

not the folder they are actually installed in:

/mnt/Games/Games/SteamApps/common/

Log of output from trying to launch game and trying to open installed location.

Game update: AppID 346510 "Hyphen", ProcID 5361, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
/bin/sh: /mnt/Games/Games/steamapps/common/Hyphen/./Hyphen: No such file or directory
Game removed: AppID 346510 "Hyphen", ProcID 5361 
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1450127196)
Generating new string page texture 122: 16x256, total string texture memory is 3.21 MB
Generating new string page texture 129: 64x256, total string texture memory is 3.28 MB
Generating new string page texture 130: 48x256, total string texture memory is 3.33 MB
Generating new string page texture 131: 128x256, total string texture memory is 3.46 MB
Generating new string page texture 133: 256x256, total string texture memory is 3.72 MB
Game update: AppID 346510 "Hyphen", ProcID 5634, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
/bin/sh: /mnt/Games/Games/steamapps/common/Hyphen/./Hyphen: No such file or directory
Game removed: AppID 346510 "Hyphen", ProcID 5634 
gvfs-open: /mnt/Games/Games/steamapps/common/Hyphen: error opening location: Error when getting information for file '/mnt/Games/Games/steamapps/common/Hyphen': No such file or directory
Aabc-mikey 2015-12-31 github

In fact looking further I can see that

/mnt/Games/Games/steamapps/

appears to have been populated with the various configuration files but

/mnt/Games/Games/SteamApps/common

appears to have the actual game data installed to it.

Aabc-mikey 2015-12-31 github

A workarround appears to be to move the gamedata into the folder with the steam config files:

cd /mnt/Games
mv Games/SteamApps/common/* Games/steamapps/common/
rmdir Games/SteamApps/common/
rmdir Games/SteamApps/

And symlink the other directory name steam is trying to access to the common one:

cd Games/
ln -s steamapps SteamApps

However steam should not be confusing upper and lower case paths like this!

Rrmbleeker 2016-01-03 github

Related to #4154? That one is fixed though.

JJoshuaMurphynz 2016-01-09 github

If it is the same as #4154 and is fixed, could this please be closed then.

Aabc-mikey 2016-01-09 github

It looks like it may be related to the switch to a lower case "steamapps" folder as mentioned in #4154 but not to the actual issue in that thread as I have never run "steam --reset".

My guess would be that there an issue in migrating people to the lower case name perhaps related to the slightly unusual path that I picked in /mnt/ or the fact that this was my second install location.

There then seems to have been a recent change to the way that the locations are picked for launching games, as they only stopped working shortly before I posted this issue.

JJoshuaMurphynz 2016-01-09 github

So if you run steam --rest the bug goes away?
On 9 Jan 2016 20:43, "Michael Green" [email protected] wrote:

It looks like it may be related to the switch to a lower case "steamapps"
folder as mentioned in #4154
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4154 but not to
the actual issue in that thread as I have never run "steam --reset".

My guess would be that there an issue in migrating people to the lower
case name perhaps related to the slightly unusual path that I picked in
/mnt/ or the fact that this was my second install location.

There then seems to have been a recent change to the way that the
locations are picked for launching games, as they only stopped working
shortly before I posted this issue.

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Aabc-mikey 2016-02-03 github

Sorry I have reordered my collection so that I no longer am able to reproduce the issue.

JJoshuaMurphynz 2016-02-03 github

That's fine. Feel free to close this bug
On 4 Feb 2016 3:10 a.m., "Michael Green" [email protected] wrote:

Sorry I have reordered my collection so that I no longer am able to
reproduce the issue.

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Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-02-05 github

Hello @abc-mikey, Steam no longer supports the older camel-cased SteamApps naming convention and will automatically migrate the folder to all lower case if it can safely.

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