steam won't start: symbol lookup error

when i run steam, it won't start. running it from the terminal produces the following output:

steam.sh[13105]: Running Steam on bazzite 40 64-bit
steam.sh[13105]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[13174]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_module_open_full
run.sh[13192]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig
/var/home/nilmethod/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/srt-logger: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_module_open_full

steam.sh[13105]: Running Steam on bazzite 40 64-bit
steam.sh[13105]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[13174]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam-runtime-identify-library-abi: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_module_open_full
run.sh[13192]: steam-runtime-identify-library-abi --ldconfig-paths failed, falling back to ldconfig
/var/home/nilmethod/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/srt-logger: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_module_open_full

3 Replies

Kyle Gospo•3mo ago

try deleting ~/.local/share/Steam and re-launching if you have games installed, rename it instead so you can copy them back over after you confirm if that fixes it

HikariKnight•3mo ago

ujust fix-reset-steam will reset steam and keep your data (games, saves, etc)

nilmethod•3mo ago

the ujust script worked, thanks!

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