It looks like you have an old Steam client that hasn't updated lately. From Steam select Steam->Check For Steam Client Updates...
You should have this file present:
~/.local/share/Steam/linux32/steamclient.so
And after running the new steam, you should have this symlink:
~/.steam/sdk32 which is symlinked to ~/.local/share/Steam/linux32
Please let me know if this fixes it.
Thanks.
Sorry for the delay in replying, steam says the client is up to date, however I get this error message in terminal:
Steam: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty)
Resource id in failed request: 0x420008b
Serial number of failed request: 53166
Do I have to reinstall steam or can I link that file manually ?
I get the same bug when trying to play half-life:
Game update: AppID 70 "Half-Life (Beta)", ProcID 4172, IP 0.0.0.0:0
ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
Steam: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
Major opcode of failed request: 20 (X_GetProperty)
Resource id in failed request: 0x42000a9
Serial number of failed request: 117670
Using breakpad crash handler
dlopen failed trying to load:
/home/max/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so
with error:
/home/max/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; Sys_LoadModule failed to load: /home/max/.steam/sdk32/steamclient.so
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to locate a running instance of Steam, or a local steamclient.dll.
Failed to initalize authentication interface. Exiting...
saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'
roaming config store 2 saved successfully
Game removed: AppID 70 "Half-Life (Beta)", ProcID 4172
saving roaming config store to 'sharedconfig.vdf'
roaming config store 2 saved successfully
steamclient.dllx2 2013-01
When I click play on my library to launch Counter-Strike (Beta) the game fails to start and the following message appears in command line:
System specs:
PS: I found a similar issue already reported, but it appeared to be related to nvidia optimus, since this system is a desktop without such thing has optimus I made a new issue.