Steam constantly "updating" itself
Ever since the 3.0 update, or at least shortly after it, Steam seems to always believe there is a Steam client update to install. In game mode, it shows the "update available" icon even when there is no Bazzite update to install; if I click to install the update, it "installs" instantly and triggers a Steam client restart. Similarly, every time I switch to desktop mode, Steam pops up with an "installing update" window which also "finishes" almost instantly. Based on this behavior, I have to guess that there is no actual update to install and that Steam is bugged in thinking that there is.
This is not a huge issue as I can just safely ignore it and Steam still runs fine, but I figured you all might want to know about it anyway!
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Interesting - when I ran steam from the terminal, the update window came up as usual but this time it functioned normally, actually taking a few seconds to download and apply an update, progress bar and all. Then when I switched back to gaming mode I confirmed that the "update available" indicator no longer appears and manually checking for an update reports that I am up to date. So it seems like the problem is resolved - not sure why running from the terminal made any difference, but evidentl...
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Try updating from desktop, tell me what it does
All the other topgrade steps, like distrobox and flatpak upgrades, run normally of course
(per rpm-ostree, I'm already running 40.20240427.0, which I believe is the latest)
What happens if you open steam from the desktop? Does it update normally or do you have the same issue where it re-downloads the update each time.
Yeah it's the same thing - when steam starts in desktop mode the "Installing steam update" window pops up for a few seconds, then "finishes" pretty much instantly (the progress bar never actually moves) and steam proceeds to run normally
But the "update available" message never goes away
try and launch steam from the terminal. You might be able to see some form of underlying error potentially in the terminal console output
Solution
Interesting - when I ran steam from the terminal, the update window came up as usual but this time it functioned normally, actually taking a few seconds to download and apply an update, progress bar and all. Then when I switched back to gaming mode I confirmed that the "update available" indicator no longer appears and manually checking for an update reports that I am up to date. So it seems like the problem is resolved - not sure why running from the terminal made any difference, but evidently it did. Thanks!
This is happening again
Even with update from terminal
That is very weird, was hoping for an error message to see what is up rather than it just working
I'm experiencing the same thing
please update from the desktop with
rpm-ostree update
and paste the results hereWill be an hour or so but will paste as soon as I can, thanks, also, not sure if related but in desktop mode, the steam keyboard won't display, started around the same time after update to 3.*
Steam keyboard is 100% powered by the steam client, if it's broken for you it's not our doing
keyboard works fine for me on 3.0
as an untested data point, I was on a weird update loop last night from game mode on my Deck. it resolved itself after
ujust update in desktop mode
I suspect this will fix most cases here
with a few outliers that have layered packages
oddly enough, I have had the steam keyboard pop up on my desktop, and I have no idea how I triggered it
I only have
webkit2gtk4.0 layered in right now for my 3d printer slicer because they changed something in the appimageThought that would be the case, just mentioned in case it was something else and known
says you're up to date, that's interesting
Yeah, so update seems to succeed but then reappears a few hours later
I've done a ujust update too, see how that goes and I'll report back if the update reappears again
For anyone happening upon this, a ujust update fixed it for me, had a new client update since that and it applied correctly