[opensuse] Steam no longer working
Problem with Steam on openSUSE 42.3, running with Plasma on an Intel NUC 5th generation with Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2). This is the standard Steam package from the 42.3 OSS repo. Rather annoying occurrence on somebody else's machine. I bought them a game and installed Steam for the first time (not something I was ever familiar with before) when last visiting back in August. I'm there again now but only until tomorrow, probably many months until my next visit, and they've just told me that the game stopped working some time ago. I apply standard system updates via SSH but despite my pleas to always advise me as soon as there's any problem, they didn't, so I've no idea which of the hundreds of updates could have been responsible. When launching Steam, I get the initial window and splash with sound and animation, after which the message 'connecting to Steam account [username]'. And then nothing, it hangs. If I click somewhere in the window I get a sound effect but there's no visuals aside from the blue background. I need a quick fix as I only have a few hours before returning abroad. Any ideas? gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 28/12/2018 20:28, gumb wrote:
Problem with Steam on openSUSE 42.3, running with Plasma on an Intel NUC 5th generation with Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2). This is the standard Steam package from the 42.3 OSS repo.
I just tried logging into the Steam account in a browser, whereupon it moaned of it being a new browser or device (not true, merely a Firefox update perhaps, nothing more) and wanted to verify the account. So it sent an email and I attended to all that. Hoped maybe that was the issue but no, on the next Steam start-up it showed some status bar a couple of times saying it was downloading some update, but then nothing, as before. I tried running it in a terminal and got the following output: http://susepaste.org/44026830 I copied and pasted this from Konsole into a text file and it hasn't retained the line endings and formatting, sorry. Time's running out but if anybody spots anything obviously amiss please let me know. Thanks to Carlos for the off-list reply. Seems everyone's on holiday. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 29/12/2018 14.04, gumb wrote:
On 28/12/2018 20:28, gumb wrote:
Problem with Steam on openSUSE 42.3, running with Plasma on an Intel NUC 5th generation with Intel HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2). This is the standard Steam package from the 42.3 OSS repo.
I just tried logging into the Steam account in a browser, whereupon it moaned of it being a new browser or device (not true, merely a Firefox update perhaps, nothing more) and wanted to verify the account. So it sent an email and I attended to all that. Hoped maybe that was the issue but no, on the next Steam start-up it showed some status bar a couple of times saying it was downloading some update, but then nothing, as before.
Can it be installed again from scratch? Renaming first whatever directories it uses? At least /home/{username}/.local/share/Steam/ -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))
On 30/12/2018 12:42, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Can it be installed again from scratch? Renaming first whatever directories it uses?
At least /home/{username}/.local/share/Steam/
I don't know, I did think of that but was out of time to faff with it any further, and decided to concede in light of various posts on the opensuse subreddit that suggest it's a wider unfixed problem, e.g. this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/9crshh/steam_wont_start_on_opensu... I tried the magic command detailed in that thread. You can always guarantee (well, I can anyway) when there's a comment like that followed by several people chipping in saying 'yeah great works for me', that it will definitely not work :( But if there's one thing more annoying, it's when you're in urgent need of some help, you post to the mailing list and on that particular occasion your posts don't show up until several hours afterwards, presumably because of some spam check. Frustrating. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 31/12/2018 21.31, gumb wrote:
On 30/12/2018 12:42, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Can it be installed again from scratch? Renaming first whatever directories it uses?
At least /home/{username}/.local/share/Steam/
I don't know, I did think of that but was out of time to faff with it any further, and decided to concede in light of various posts on the opensuse subreddit that suggest it's a wider unfixed problem, e.g. this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/openSUSE/comments/9crshh/steam_wont_start_on_opensu...
I tried the magic command detailed in that thread. You can always guarantee (well, I can anyway) when there's a comment like that followed by several people chipping in saying 'yeah great works for me', that it will definitely not work :(
:-( I see a suggestion on that thread to "install the Steam Flatpak". Guessing it is locally linked to its own libraries instead of system ones.
But if there's one thing more annoying, it's when you're in urgent need of some help, you post to the mailing list and on that particular occasion your posts don't show up until several hours afterwards, presumably because of some spam check. Frustrating.
No, it was a server problem at suse, few people noticed. I didn't. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.3 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)
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