Universal Blue•3mo ago

Clicking steam from menu doesn't open it. Trying from terminal shows no output.

I was able to install and run it from a flatpak, which I'm fine with doing but I'm not sure if this will cause any issues.

top | grep steam

top | grep steam

and

ps -aef | grep steam

ps -aef | grep steam

show nothing.

11 Replies

murder_me_nowOP•3mo ago

sorry I should've put more details image is

bazzite-nvidia:stable

bazzite-nvidia:stable

Laptop is a dell G3 with an Nvidia 1060 6GB intel i5 8300H 16gb ram Fresh install, only image on drive.

termdisc•3mo ago

why are you running Steam from a flatpak?

murder_me_nowOP•3mo ago

Because as mentioned in the title, the pre-installed steam on the image doesn't do anything. It doesn't open, theres no logs from the terminal, nada. So I installed it from a flatpak just to see if it would run (it does)

termdisc•3mo ago

Run bazzite-steam and see if behavior changes Also make sure there isn’t a stalled process before doing that

murder_me_nowOP•3mo ago

jparsons@bazzite:~/Downloads$ bazzite-steam
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
jparsons@bazzite:~/Downloads$

jparsons@bazzite:~/Downloads$ bazzite-steam
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
jparsons@bazzite:~/Downloads$

Kyle Gospo•3mo ago

Try ujust fix-reset-steam

murder_me_nowOP•3mo ago

yo lets go that worked. so what was the problem? steam install happened to get borked for some reason?

Kyle Gospo•3mo ago

yep that just wipes out your local steam files minus games

murder_me_nowOP•3mo ago

hell yeah man thanks

Kyle Gospo•3mo ago

HikariKnight•3mo ago

making that ujust was such a good idea 😄

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