Missing file privileges on steam
how do I fix this?
the error on the left appears when I try to run the game under steam linux runtime, when I use proton the game just does not launch(other games work with proton)
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Try install the game on your internal drive and see if it launches. Suspect that you need to change some permissions around to be able to access you /var/mnt/gamesandsoftware seperate drive
I moved the game to the my main partiton as you said and I could run it w/o the runtime, then I also installed the runtime in the main paritition an it also works. So yeah, looks like it's an issue with the permissions.
what type of partition is /var/mnt/gamesandsoftware? btrfs, fat32, ntfs?
btrfs
Are you on gnome or kde?
kde
this is how it looks on fstab
https://universal-blue.discourse.group/docs?topic=970 I followed this guide to mount it
if you type
ll /var/mnt do you get the following?
Then it's weird that steam cannot write to it
if you type
touch /var/mnt/gamesandsoftware/somerandomfilename does it create the file or give you an error?steam seems to be able to write to it, it can install games and create proton prefixes for other games
it creates the file
hmmm, what about drive space. Use the
df command what percentage full is the drive?35%
That is weird. I know that terraria is a native linux game, so maybe it's something weird for any game that isn't using proton
what happens if you force it to use proton and install it on the other drive? 😅
I was trying this right now, the game just doesn't launch(this happens in both drives)
proton is installed on the main partition too
guess I'll just keep terraria in the main partition since it's the only game that isn't working
One other thing to try would be to launch steam from the terminal and then you might get a better error message, when you try and launch terraria
now this is happening with all proton games, wtf
looks like that is because I had moved "steam linux runtime 3.0(sniper)" to /var/mnt/gamesandsoftware
So you managed to move it back?
yep, proton seems to rely on runtime 3.0 and it seems that both runtimes and native games don't work when they're on /var/mnt/gamesandsoftware
terraria still doesn't work with proton, but it seems to be for a different reason
But it does work with proton off right?
When it's on the home drive
yep
It might be worth simulating this and logging it in the github a bit later if I can reproduce
Wonder if it's a steam issue or a bazzite specific issue
I guess that if I keep the game on /var/mnt/gamesandsoftware and run it using the steam runtime installed on the home partition it will work
edit: didn't wok
I guess you better get back to playing Terraria with it's "last patch" 🤣
Yeah maybe, I'll see if I can simulate it
Update: the issue was being caused by the "users" options overwriting the "exec" one