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mskiptr

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Yeah. But it is a good piece of evidence for who the culprit is. And maybe I'll report it to Valve since there appears to be a support link embedded in it.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Well, from what I can see in systemctl status's output (at least for the -deck images) SDDM just autologins you into a shell script. The rest is a bespoke setup to make gamescope and Steam behave. (Tho now that I know where it lives, I can just read the code and find out what it does directly so that's good.)

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

I'm asking questions to learn how the boot process + launching steam is supposed to go. I've been quite explicit that I'm not trying to "make the problem go away" and that I do not expect you to troubleshoot anything here. It would indeed be a wild goose chase as you said. But I am asking technical questions in the hope that someone who knows how this is all supposed to work can help me understand the parts that differ compared to a traditional Linux OS. While this particular case is most likely just a bug in Steam (I now found a crash dump from around the time it hanged), I want to fix other problems I'm encountering.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

or rather, "can explain" them

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Can you recommend someone who knows the Bazzite-specific intricacies of the boot process?

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

That's not the case at all. Gamescope (and all the progress bars from Steam) show up way before it is reached. If that's not how it's supposed to go, then the unit files need to be fixed

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Yeah yeah. I know. I was asking whether gamescope or the deck UI care about it

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Does it depend on Flatpaks being up to date? Because that is the only thing that holds up the graphical target.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Or maybe not. It seems there are more of those messages from sudo later on…

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Yes. When steam is not busy with downloading its updates, there are a lot of failed attempts to use sudo ("$USER : a password is required ; PWD=/var/home/$USER/.local/share/Steam ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/use/bin/tee /sys/class/hwmon1/power?_cap"). They stop once the bazzite-flatpak-manager service is done and graphical.target is reached. So maybe that fixup should be applied earlier in the boot process

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Because it's only being reached once bazzite-flatpak-manager.service finishes, and that triggers bazzite-tdpfix.service which in turn seems to make one of the earlier warnings (about sudo refusing to let tee write into /sys/**/hwmon1/power{1,2}_cap) finally go away.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Is graphical.target relevant for the Deck UI or gamescope?

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

I mainly expect the first, so my plan is to stare at the logs a little more, maybe take a crashdump of the sus processes, or simply go on "a killing spree" to hopefully see which part of that tree above was responsible. After that I'll try out your suggestions that involve reboots to rule out or confirm the other two options.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."

Thanks for all the help offered, but maybe I haven't expressed myself clearly enough. I don't want to needlessly waste your time on this, so let me say that a bit more bluntly: I expect this is an ephemeral problem that will go away after a reboot. But I still want to investigate it a bit in case it can be fixed easily. If you have ideas, do share them. But do not waste your time trying to troubleshoot it remotely! It is not worth it.

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UBUniversal Blue

•Created by mskiptr on 2/8/2025 in #🛟bazzite-help

First boot of the Deck UI hanged on "Update complete, launching Steam..."