Steam display not friendly message if /tmp is not writeable

steamclosed wontfixSteam client

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#668 · opened 2013-01-12 by lumag · updated 2013-01-12 · 4 comments · github

Llumag 2013-01-12 github

By accident I have made /tmp not writeable by user. Then Steam displayed a message which took me a while to debug.
steam-on-64 . Could you please add some kind of '/tmp is working' check?

MMrSchism 2013-01-12 github

Mind if I ask why you don't have /tmp as working? Steam isn't the only program which hinges its performance on /tmp.

Llumag 2013-01-12 github

@MrSchism As I said it was a pure accident. I was experimenting with steam, chroots, etc. It is not a really hardly-missed feature, but changing that message to something saner (or expanding it somehow) can help people.

MMrSchism 2013-01-12 github

This leads me to believe that they left the fifos in /tmp (as per #215).

Jjohnv-valve maintainer 2013-01-12 github

Seems a pretty rare scenario and not worth the investment here.

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