Steam will not start. GTK Warnings.

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: Ubuntu

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5473 · opened 2018-05-04 by Austint30 · updated 2020-08-14 · 4 comments · github

AAustint30 2018-05-04 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): 26184
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
Opted into Steam client beta?: No
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I am not exactly sure what is causing the crash to occur, but I think it has to do with using the Communitheme on Ubuntu 18.04. I also have a custom skin (Metro for Steam) installed for the steam client.

Here is the result of running steam with the terminal:
https://gist.github.com/Austint30/fcb80ac94c95084cfd2bbff792965d8a

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Use Ubuntu 18.04.
sudo snap install communitheme
Log out. Change session to Ubuntu Communitheme and log in again.
Install Metro for Steam skin
Log out of steam. Try to log in again. Updating steam window appears and then disappears. This is when it crashes.
Start steam using the steam command. Should fail to start with Gtk warnings.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-05-04 github

Hello @Austint30, the dbus message looks like the line of interest in the log.

Can you move the equivalent of ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs* out of the way and see if that makes a difference? If it does, then please list the contents of the old and regenerated pinned library folders.

BBittaJam 2018-05-05 github

Hi. I confirm this bug, I have the very same issue on my Debian system. The output from the terminal looks pretty same.
I have removed pinned_libs* folders, so Steam would rebuild them, and now it runs normally (with the usual output full of other errors (like "TagLib: MPEG::Header::parse() -- Invalid sample rate", and "process 16956: arguments to dbus_connection_ref() were incorrect, assertion "connection->generation == _dbus_current_generation" failed in file ../../dbus/dbus-connection.c line 2656.", and"[0505/104721.045042:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration is not supported after context initialization", so yes, this solution is working.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-07-03 github

Hello @Austint30, are you still experiencing this issue on an up to date system?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-08-14 github

Closing pending feedback.

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