Restarting the system from Steam overlay does not work

steamclosed overlayDistro Family: SteamOS

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5138 · opened 2017-08-20 by littlegamer87 · updated 2025-05-26 · 4 comments · github

Llittlegamer87 2017-08-20 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): July 17 2017
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): SteamOS
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:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist
In SteamOS, in game, with an X360 controller, after opening the "system overlay" by holding the Xbox-button down for a long time, the "Restart System" button has no effect.

After closing the game, another popup appears, asking the user to confirm. This popup should've appeared in the overlay.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

See this video: https://youtu.be/AJ0O14sdNeU?t=23s

Ddragon788 2017-10-05 github

Are you using SteamOS on an official system or installed on your own hardware? Not sure it matters, there is definitely a Z-level bug here, just curious mostly.

Llittlegamer87 2017-10-05 github

This is my own build, but it's nothing exotic. It's an i5-6400, GTX 970, 8GB RAM and SteamOS has its own mechanical 1TB HDD. Rock solid stability, no esd damage and temperatures are great.

This bug has got to be fairly recent because this worked fine when I started with SteamOS. I am pretty sure that second confirmation popup is new, and someone forgot to test this in the overlay. Shutting down the system without a game running from BPM works as intended. I shut down my PS3 like this as well (in game) so I am used to this method.

MManagor 2025-05-26 github

The restart and shutdown selections work on modern installations.

Llittlegamer87 2025-05-26 github

It probably does, this report is from 7 years ago.

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