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Steam client fails to launch for unclear reason, regression

steamclosed Steam clientDistro Family: Gentoo
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7106 · opened 2020-05-12 by amonakov · updated 2022-12-09 · 5 comments · github
Aamonakov 2020-05-12 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1588032389
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Gentoo
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: No

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

After an auto-update a few weeks ago Steam client fails to properly launch on my system. It offers the login screen and 2fa window, but after that I see a spew of Assertion Failed: !bSharedKVSymbols messages and it apparently hangs. Normally it would present the client UI next, but that doesn't happen.

I have attempted to wipe and re-download the client, but the issue remains: even with a clean install, it hangs the same way. Even though it worked fine for years on that machine.

Log with DEBUGGER=gdb STEAM_DEBUG=1: https://gist.github.com/amonakov/7f8e9cbf29c4f1619cb487dea6317634

What does Assertion Failed: !bSharedKVSymbols imply? Can I help debug this further?

Ggedia 2020-06-10 github

Same here, happened after world update, but steam also updated at the same time so not sure what caused it...

TtacksetB 2020-06-10 github

Same here. Problem first appeared after a world update few days ago. I was not using steam runtime until now, but had to switch to STEAM_RUNTIME=1, in order to make Steam start again.

Ggedia 2020-07-22 github

This is most probably a duplicate of #5014

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-11-04 github

Hello, is anyone here still experiencing this issue on an up to date system? This assert is most commonly seen with subtle incompatibilities between the host system and libraries provided by the Steam runtime and is generally resolved by adding the system variant of the library which is incompatible.

Which library was having a hard time with Gentoo at the time of this issue report is unclear and Gentoo's package maintainer(s) for their Steam package might have a better idea where this kind of snafu is likely on that distro.

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2022-12-09 github

Closing as outdated.

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