Can't launch Steam on chrooted environment.

steamclosed Not a bug

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#5905 · opened 2018-11-16 by ghost · updated 2021-04-09 · 3 comments · github

?ghost 2018-11-16 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): 1541819448
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Debian
Opted into Steam client beta?: No
Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I have Debian 9.5 (Stretch) running with i3wm, I'm following https://wiki.debian.org/chroot instructions on how to set up a chroot environment and trying to run Steam inside it. If I don't mount host partitions on chroot directories Steam gives me a Unable to determine CPU Frequency. Try defining CPU_MHZ. error. Following all steps described here, the terminal outputs ../common/ipcserver.cpp (1229) : Assertion Failed: CPipeWaiter::BRemove(46) -- not present and steam doesn't run at all. I can see the updater window but nothing more than that.

Host uname -a output:
Linux FGNull 4.9.0-8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.9.130-2 (2018-10-27) x86_64 GNU/Linux

My error.log output:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Lurdiel/41d3a3d9947fe866f64094d136941c3c/raw/2dba49b4873fd71d2e614ce2cc0ba7937645a826/gistfile1.txt

Steps for reproducing this issue:

Create a chroot environment with debootstrap --arch i386 stretch /path/to/chroot http://deb.debian.org/debian
Mount host partitions on chroot directories:
mount --bind /dev /path/to/chroot/dev
mount --bind /dev/pts /path/to/chroot/dev/pts
mount --bind /proc /path/to/chroot/proc
Run xhost + on host machine so I can run GUI applications from chroot.
Chroot into /path/to/chroot/
Run export DISPLAY=:0.0 so Steam can show GUI on my host display.
Install and run Steam through apt install steam.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2018-11-16 github

Hello @Lurdiel, as far as I can tell you're not giving Steam a sane environment to run in.

libGL error: MESA-LOADER: failed to retrieve device information
libGL error: Version 4 or later of flush extension not found
libGL error: failed to load driver: i915

These lines strongly suggest your video driver stack is broken.

While steam itself is a basic 32 bit opengl application, the web component and some games are not, so you would also benefit from using a 64 bit multilib environment.

?ghost 2018-11-16 github

I see, sorry for the trouble then. I'll research what's causing this and try to troubleshoot by myself, thanks for the help anyway.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-04-09 github

Closing because the reporting user has turned into a ghost.

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