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Steam hangs at `Updating Steam Information`

steamopen Steam clientDistro Family: Arch
ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8203 · opened 2021-11-04 by ShyAssassin · updated 2021-11-04 · 1 comments · github
SShyAssassin 2021-11-04 github

Your system information

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

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Steam recently starting to hang on Updating Steam Information, when launching from the command line i see steam is unable to initialize vulkan .

Vulkan missing requested extension 'VK_KHR_surface'.
Vulkan missing requested extension 'VK_KHR_xlib_surface'.
BInit - Unable to initialize Vulkan!

i have reinstalled all of my drivers and made sure they are working, i also have made sure mesa,lib32-mesa,vulkan-icd-loader,lib32-vulkan-icd-loader,mesa-vulkan-drivers,vulkan-utils are all installed

SShyAssassin 2021-11-04 github

I forgot to add but at times it will occasionally get past Updating Steam Information and then proceed to hang again on Connecting Steam account

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