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Steam failing to start on Ubuntu 18.04

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5811 · opened 2018-10-04 by stuartlangridge · updated 2019-07-18 · 3 comments · github
Sstuartlangridge 2018-10-04 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date):
    steam-launcher deb 1.0.0.52
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu):
    Ubuntu 18.04
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No]
    I'm not sure. I'm in the beta to get Proton, but I don't know if that's the client beta
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No]
    Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Launching steam from the command line prints an error and exits:

$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
$

I've tried moving pinned_libs out of the way, as per @kisak-valve's suggestion in https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/5463, but it didn't help.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-10-04 github

Hello @stuartlangridge, can you verify that any 32 bit opengl application like glxinfo from mesa-utils:i386 works?

Sstuartlangridge 2018-10-04 github

@kisak-valve I can't test that specific example (because installing mesa-utils:i386 will remove mesa-utils and mate-tweak), but I've tried running the i386 version of a game (not from Steam; TheMaitreD, built with Unity), and that worked fine (as did its x86_64 version).

Sstuartlangridge 2018-10-06 github

After a reboot, this problem seems to have resolved itself; I appreciate that this isn't very helpful, though. I'll close this issue, but if there's any more information I can provide then do reopen it and I'll try to.

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