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Network change upstream breaks Steam client

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8272 · opened 2021-11-29 by cybik · updated 2021-12-06 · 1 comments · github
Ccybik 2021-11-29 github

Your system information

  • Steam client version (build number or date): 1637624439 (Nov 22 2021, 22:12:42)
  • Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Ubuntu (Pop!_OS)
  • Opted into Steam client beta?: No
  • Have you checked for system updates?: Can't, technically.

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

After logging in, Steam reports either "content servers unreachable" or "Offline" regularly when attempting to download anything at all, but will on occasion just manage to get a download through.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

  1. Have a development machine with too many network interfaces than should be.
  2. Use latest steam.

Possible diagnosis

It could be that a recent code change made it so Steam "picks" a network interface at random to try and download through, and since I have more than one, it picks the wrong one and can't reach the internet because of that?

Other information

I have installed nscd per #7667. It didn't fix it.

Ccybik 2021-12-02 github

Somehow, a few issues are not happening at all today. If you changed something in the network interface selection as a server-to-client push, my commendations. That's impressive.

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