Steam update breaks if installed steam.deb isn’t 1.0.0.20

steamclosed High priorityreviewedSteam client

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#626 · opened 2013-01-09 by johndrinkwater · updated 2013-01-12 · 12 comments · github

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-09 github

For people coming here:
The latest client update has an issue if your package manager has not updated to the latest steam loader already - http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/archive/precise/steam_latest.deb
Installing that should fix it.

output from running steam:

/home/john/.steam/root/steam.sh: line 102: cd: /home/john/.steam/root: Too many levels of symbolic links
/home/john/.steam/root/steam.sh: line 106: /home/john/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32/steam: Too many levels of symbolic links

ll /home/john/.steam/
total 12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john   34 2013-01-09 15:11 bin -> /home/john/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john   28 2013-01-09 15:11 bin32 -> /home/john/Steam/ubuntu12_32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john   28 2013-01-09 15:11 bin64 -> /home/john/Steam/ubuntu12_64
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john 6757 2013-01-09 15:11 registry.vdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john   22 2013-01-09 15:11 root -> /home/john/.steam/root
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john    0 2013-01-09 15:11 starting
lrwxrwxrwx 1 john   16 2013-01-09 15:11 steam -> /home/john/Steam
-rw-rw-r-- 1 john    6 2013-01-09 15:11 steam.pid
prw------- 1 john    0 2013-01-09 15:11 steam.pipe
john@joran ~/.steam >

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-09 github

Fixing this link doesn’t help as steam.sh rebuilds it.

GGigadoc2 2013-01-09 github

This seems to be already fixed with the last update.

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-09 github

My steam claims it is up to date. Which build does your report?
Built: Jan 8 2013, at 11:38:03

GGigadoc2 2013-01-09 github

I have the same version of Steam, but the bootstrapper (which creates this symlinks, i think) is 1.0.0.20.

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-09 github

Hmm. ~/Steam/steam.sh doesn’t contain a version number for me
Looks like I have to reinstall the client.

GGigadoc2 2013-01-09 github

No, that's the version of the "steam"-package by my distribution (Arch). Should be the same as the ubuntu package numbers though.

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-09 github

Huh, after checking, steam hadn’t added the valve repo to my system, so even though client continued to update itself, must have been using the older client scripts.

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-09 github

For people coming here, make sure you have the latest steam.deb update, it will resolve the problem.

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-09 github

Seems other people are hitting this, so reopening.

DDarkStarSword 2013-01-10 github

Hmmm, this is interesting - The root link seems to be broken and fixed in a cycle for me:

Prior to running Steam:

ian@delenn~ [i]> ls -l ~/.steam
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   22 Jan 10 16:57 bin -> /home/ian/.steam/bin32/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   40 Jan 10 16:55 bin32 -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   40 Jan 10 16:55 bin64 -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 3472 Jan 10 16:57 registry.vdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   28 Jan 10 16:56 root -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian    0 Jan 10 16:57 starting
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   28 Jan 10 16:55 steam -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian    6 Jan 10 16:56 steam.pid
prw------- 1 ian ian    0 Jan 10 16:57 steam.pipe|

After starting Steam the root link is broken (only once the main window has come up - while "connecting" the links are as above):

ian@delenn~ [i]> ls -l ~/.steam
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   33 Jan 10 16:58 bin -> /home/ian/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   40 Jan 10 16:58 bin32 -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   40 Jan 10 16:58 bin64 -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 3476 Jan 10 16:58 registry.vdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   21 Jan 10 16:58 root -> /home/ian/.steam/root
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian    0 Jan 10 16:58 starting
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   28 Jan 10 16:58 steam -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian    6 Jan 10 16:58 steam.pid
prw------- 1 ian ian    0 Jan 10 16:58 steam.pipe|

After exiting Steam it says extracting package then restarts itself (see bug https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/605) and the links are fixed:

ian@delenn~ [i]> ls -l ~/.steam
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   22 Jan 10 16:59 bin -> /home/ian/.steam/bin32/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   40 Jan 10 16:58 bin32 -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   40 Jan 10 16:58 bin64 -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian 3476 Jan 10 16:59 registry.vdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   28 Jan 10 16:59 root -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian    0 Jan 10 16:59 starting
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ian ian   28 Jan 10 16:58 steam -> /home/ian/.local/share/Steam/
-rw-r--r-- 1 ian ian    6 Jan 10 16:59 steam.pid
prw------- 1 ian ian    0 Jan 10 16:59 steam.pipe|

After exiting Steam the second time the links remain fixed until Steam is manually launched again.

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-10 github

@DarkStarSword yes, that was the issue I was having until the latest deb update replaced the /usr/bin/steam.sh script

Jjohndrinkwater 2013-01-10 github

@bleached is your problem related to this bug, or #605 ?

Upstream links

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/605x1 2013-01