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There was an error communicating with the Steam servers. Please try again later.

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5133 · opened 2017-08-15 by ghost · updated 2019-07-18 · 3 comments · github
?ghost 2017-08-15 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 17/7/17
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu gnome 17.04 amd64
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I constantly get "There was an error communicating with the Steam servers. Please try again later."
on the steam client.
This has been happening for some days already.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Just login to steam and go to activity for example
Kkisak-valve maintainer 2017-10-09 github

Hello @ekaris, can you see if installing libnss-resolve:i386 improves the behavior of steam on your system? (from https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4971#issuecomment-303506713)

?ghost 2017-11-16 github

Hi, the problem just stopped happening all of a sudden

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2017-11-16 github

Thanks for the followup @ekaris. Closing.

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