Steam won't open

Getting errors when trying to run steam:

$ steam
steam.sh[23697]: Running Steam on fedora 40 64-bit
steam.sh[23697]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[23766]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: error while loading shared libraries: /var/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/steam-runtime-tools-0/libgobject-2.0.so.0: file too short
run.sh[23778]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig
/var/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/srt-logger: error while loading shared libraries: /var/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/steam-runtime-tools-0/libgobject-2.0.so.0: file too short

$ steam
steam.sh[23697]: Running Steam on fedora 40 64-bit
steam.sh[23697]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[23766]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: error while loading shared libraries: /var/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/steam-runtime-tools-0/libgobject-2.0.so.0: file too short
run.sh[23778]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig
/var/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/srt-logger: error while loading shared libraries: /var/home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/steam-runtime-tools-0/libgobject-2.0.so.0: file too short

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wolfyreload•3mo ago

I would guess that steam didn't install its own files properly which would explain the "libgobject-2.0.so.0: file too short error." I would rename the /var/home/user/.local/share/Steam directory and launch steam again and see if it works then

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