I have that happen at the moment on only using the back button where the last use of it or 1st record is that blank screen there. At the same time though I can go forward into the library screen.
Should be an easy fix.
Nope, sorry - but this is not the same issue you are having. It displays nothing. The one screen that is working is the downloads screen. Apart from that, every other page in the interface displays a blank black screen of nothingness.
I have the same problem. Don't know if it's related to all these processes being created every 7-10 seconds https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6603
Hello @arabek, please copy /tmp/dumps/<username>_stdout.txt to a gist and include a link to it here or drag and drop it to the comment box to attach it as a file.
Loaded Config for Local Selection Path for App ID 413080, Controller 0: /home/arab/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/241100/922641257/818937737353570967_legacy.bin
[413080]Non-Steam Controller Configs Enabled: 1
STEAM_RUNTIME_HEAVY: ./steam-runtime-heavy
./steamwebhelper: symbol lookup error: ./libcef.so: undefined symbol: FcConfigGetSysRoot
(repeats indefinitely)
Think this makes it clear.
[I] media-libs/fontconfig
installed version: 2.13.0-r4
[ 19:37 root@navarro: ~ ] # strings /usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so.1.11.1 | grep FcConfigGet
FcConfigGetSysRoot
(...)
Strangely, this symbol seems to be available in the system, so something must be wrong with the runtime itself.
Just a guess, can you move ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs_* somewhere out of the way so that Steam can regenerate it on next start and check if that has an effect?
Actually, after some more tests, it works if i run steam with:
LD_PRELOAD=/home/arab/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so:/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so:/usr/lib64/libdbus-1.so.3 /usr/bin/steam
So seems, the steam startup script fails to select proper libraries upon load.
Moving pinned libs out of the way didn't fix things.
Can you check if you have STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 set somewhere? There's a comment that STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=1 steam makes a difference.
Indeed, was set to 0 systemwide. When set to 1 works.
I suppose it can be closed, but i'll leave it up to you. Seems strange that a pseudo sandboxed steam install can't work on it's own.
The default if STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES is unset is the equivalent of setting it to 1.
Explicitly setting STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 is an escape hatch to undo a behaviour change that was made a while ago, and is not really considered to be a good idea: it's known to break graphics drivers on many (most?) host OSs. The graphics driver always comes from the host system, not the Steam Runtime, and it's entitled to assume that it will get at least the host system's version of the libraries that it depends on.
Seems strange that a pseudo sandboxed steam install can't work on it's own
This is specific to the steamwebhelper, which has its own mini-runtime (heavy) that is somewhat newer than the main Steam Runtime (scout). heavy isn't currently fully self-contained (modulo graphics drivers) like scout is; it expects to use libraries from a mixture of scout and the host system.
Thanks for the explanation! Appreciated.
Explicitly setting
STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0is an escape hatch to undo a behaviour change that was made a while ago, and is not really considered to be a good idea: it's known to break graphics drivers on many (most?) host OSs.
On my system it's the other way round: the games won't run without STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 thus unsetting it is not a good workaround for me.
However I can confirm that launching steam with
LD_PRELOAD=~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/libcef.so:/usr/lib64/libfontconfig.so:/usr/lib64/libdbus-1.so STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 steam
as arabek advised works!
On my system it's the other way round: the games won't run without STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 thus unsetting it is not a good workaround for me.
This shouldn't happen. Please could you open a separate issue with full details?
Please could you open a separate issue with full details?
The issue has been already opened:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4822
I have the same issue as mentioned above, but none of the possible fixes like changing the start script could fix the issue. Why is this issue even marked as "Closed" already?
Before it still worked to run games through the terminal using steam steam://run/[app_id], but now this doesn't work anymore, too. :confused:
Any idea?
Edit: The recent update seems to have fixed the issue! :smile: Thank you!
Your system information
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
Steam shows blank instead of displaying anything in any of the content windows.
Nothing works. Not the storefront, not the library.
In big picture mode everything seems to be working besides the inbuilt web browser.
Seems to be some kind of cef framwork problem?
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