After experiencing the same issue on Arch, but with the beta Steam client, I was seemingly able to work around it by switching to nouveau. Do you use the nvidia proprietary drivers? If so, you could try this.
Could also be unrelated, but I will do more testing on this in the future.
Edit: Seems like it could have been coincidence and was related to the reboot required to switch drivers, or some other magic, but I cannot reproduce this anymore after switching back to the nvidia proprietary drivers. I'm willing to test things if anyone has any ideas.
I get this error on Arch with mesa.
alright after uninstalling xf86-video-intel, steam-native works, but steam just gives me
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: i965
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
@TheSqrtMinus1 That is completely normal, it happens for anyone using mesa on newer distros. It is caused by a library conflict between the Steam runtime and the system. Using steam-native is the proper way to work around this.
I have the exact same problem as first described in this issue on SparkyLinux 4.4 GameOver 64bit with the nvidia drivers. I am sort of a linux noob and there seems to be some mesa stuff installed on my system. Any advice?
As a temporary workaround I'd recommend to start from terminal ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam. It would update Steam (be patient! Might take few rounds of updates) and you'd be able to launch it as normal.
Worked in Ubuntu 17.10 Gnome.
@dobrowins Worked in Manjaro17.1 Xfce. Thanks.
Incase anyone is using optirun, and faces this issue:
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
[2018-02-17 22:26:56] Startup - updater built Nov 23 2016 01:05:42
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
running @dobrowins solution with optirun seems to work.
optirun ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
@dobrowins solution still works here on KUbuntu 17.10
to clarify:
1 execute ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam manually
2 run the normal launcher again
this will cycle through 2 update steps, afterwards I've had the normal login screen
@dobrowins Worked on Xubuntu 18.04
Hello, Steam's handling of the Steam runtime changed a while back to prefer host libraries over the Steam runtime variants, and that was extended to the bootstrapper environment in the 1.0.0.55 Steam package.
Is anyone still experiencing this issue on an up to date system (with the 1.0.0.55 steam package or newer)?
I haven't had it anymore since then
Thanks for the feedback, closing as fixed with the 1.0.0.55 steam package.
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Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Expected steam to start.
Steam did not start.
Console output of 'steam': https://gist.github.com/TheSqrtMinus1/1c1dcb07eae454e1e5e9749f02dcfcb7
console output of 'strace steam':
https://gist.github.com/TheSqrtMinus1/464bf7e0841d363f7710332dab92040f
list of packages installed: https://gist.github.com/TheSqrtMinus1/d8b317163f4d84aba57194fd0c341834
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