Library/Store all black: line 23: ./steamwebhelper: No such file or directory (Fedora 34)

steamclosed Distro Family: FedoraWeb Component

ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#7817 · opened 2021-05-27 by mjlbach · updated 2021-05-28 · 1 comments · github

Mmjlbach 2021-05-27 github

Your system information

Steam client version (build number or date): May 26, 2021
Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Fedora 34
Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes (tried both)
Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

All of the pages (library/store/profile/etc) are black. When I launch steam from the command line, I get:

STEAM_RUNTIME_HEAVY: ./steam-runtime-heavy
/home/michael/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steamwebhelper.sh: line 23: ./steamwebhelper: No such file or directory

Yet

~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64                                                                                             
❯ ls -alt ./steamwebhelper
-rwxr-xr-x 1 michael michael 4444776 May 25 18:55 ./steamwebhelper

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1.dnf install steam
2. steam
3. Navigate to any library page

Mmjlbach 2021-05-28 github

This is a very esoteric problem, but I figured out the solution. I had nix (as in, the package manager) installed coreutils in my path which was resolving readlink for the bash script incorrectly. Fixed!

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