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Steam crashes on starting the application. -Elementary OS Loki-

steamclosed Distro Family: Ubuntu
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7452 · opened 2020-11-05 by Mau5terpiece · updated 2020-11-06 · 6 comments · github
MMau5terpiece 2020-11-05 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 11/5/2020
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Elementary OS Loki 5.1.7 64-bit
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

I expected steam to open into the login menu when I ran the command or clicked on the application.
https://gist.github.com/Mau5terpiece/159d94beafa3ed358d0fd25da84a99ff

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Install steam through the application center or the apt package manager (sudo apt install steam -y)
  2. Launch steam through the terminal (steam) or by clicking on the application in the application menu
  3. Steam then crashes with the log aforementioned.
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MMau5terpiece 2020-11-05 github

159d94beafa3ed358d0fd25da84a99ff-d3238a18de75695ffc203e08689043f235478404.zip
I'm an idiot, and don't know how embeds work here's a download to the log

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2020-11-05 github

Hello @Mau5terpiece, swrast is mesa's slower cpu opengl renderer and the fact Steam is trying to use it and failing hints that you're using the nVidia proprietary driver, but don't have nVidia's 32 bit userspace installed.

Can you check what driver series you have installed, then check if the 32 bit userspace is installed with something like apt policy libnvidia-gl-450:i386? (Change 450 to match the version that is installed.) If it's not installed, you can run something like sudo apt install libnvidia-gl-450:i386 to add it to your system.

MMau5terpiece 2020-11-06 github

From what I can tell I am using the nvidia-440-server drivers
I have no Idea what info this gives

MMau5terpiece 2020-11-06 github

Should I upgrade to the 450-server driver?

MMau5terpiece 2020-11-06 github

Here is what it displays when I ran apt policy libnvidia-gl-450:i386
libnvidia-gl-450:i386: Installed: (none) Candidate: 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Version table: 450.80.02-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/restricted i386 Packages
I just installed that library

MMau5terpiece 2020-11-06 github

that seemed to have fixed it

Nothing extracted yet.