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Steam Fails to Start

steamclosed runtimeDistro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7672 · opened 2021-02-24 by CamK06 · updated 2021-03-05 · 1 comments · github
CCamK06 2021-02-24 github

System information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): Unknown, I'm unsure of how to get this information. Whichever the latest on Arch is
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No]: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

I expect Steam to open. When I run it, it throws a Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run: libc.so.6 error. If I hit OK and let it continue it'll then throw Failed to load steamui.so - dlerror(): libXfixes.so.3: cannot stat shared object: Value too large for defined data type

Full output here

Just a note: Steam was working since I initially installed it back in November but stopped and started having this issue a few days ago. I've tried completely wiping everything related to Steam from my computer and reinstalling, updating over and over, reinstalling 32 bit libraries all to no avail.

UPDATE: I got past the initial part that fails to load steamui.so and says it can't find 32 bit libraries. All I did was manually go over every dependency of steamui and reinstall them so I guess I might've missed some. However, now when I start it I get a glXChooseVisual failed error with no further info

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Install Steam on an up-to-date Arch system
  2. Attempt to run it
CCamK06 2021-03-05 github

RESOLVED:

ran sudo pacman -Qqn | grep "lib32" | sudo pacman -S - to reinstall every 32 bit library.

Nothing extracted yet.