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Flatpak Steam crashes on startup (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by Dirk@lemmy.ml to c/steam@lemmy.ml
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Since some time now the Steam Flatpak cannot start up and I have no idea why this happens.

Web research leads to basically nothing that is related to what I experience so I assume it has something to do with my system. Other Flatpaks start up normally and I can use them.

When resetting everything related to the Steam Flatpak and reinstalling it from Flathub it loads and installs the Flatpak and then installs all necessary stuff

[various update-related stuff]
setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libcurl.so.4
setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libSDL2-2.0.so.0. Host: 0.2400.0 Runtime: 0.2600.5
setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 32-bit libvulkan.so.1. Host: 1.3.224 Runtime: 1.3.239
setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libdbusmenu-glib.so.4
setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libcurl-gnutls.so.4
setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 32-bit libdbusmenu-gtk.so.4
setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 64-bit libcurl.so.4
setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libSDL2-2.0.so.0. Host: 0.2400.0 Runtime: 0.2600.5
setup.sh[4598]: Found newer runtime version for 64-bit libvulkan.so.1. Host: 1.3.224 Runtime: 1.3.239
setup.sh[4598]: Forced use of runtime version for 64-bit libcurl-gnutls.so.4
steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

So everything looks good up to this point. The small Steam update windows poppend up several times indicating the running installation/update. The output then continues:

[2023-08-17 22:47:50] Startup - updater built Jul 28 2023 18:44:09
[2023-08-17 22:47:50] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-no-cef-sandbox'
08/17 22:47:50 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5467)
[2023-08-17 22:47:50] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-08-17 22:47:50] Failed to load cached hosts file (File 'update_hosts_cached.vdf' not found), using defaults
[2023-08-17 22:47:50] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-08-17 22:47:50] 1. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-08-17 22:47:50] Verifying installation...
[2023-08-17 22:47:50] Verification complete
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf0d328f0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf0d311c0
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good

(The last line gets printed twice, yes.)

The first startup process then hangs there for a few seconds and continues with this.

steamwebhelper.sh[5473]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
steamwebhelper.sh[5473]: CEF sandbox already disabled
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Fatal assert; application exiting
08/17 22:48:39 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5467)
assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20230817224839_27.dmp
dirk ~ $

After the command prompt is shown agein, this gets printed:

assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: response: CrashID=bp-f62fb7e8-d024-452e-a937-9c6672230817
assert_20230817224839_27.dmp[5771]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230817224839_27.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-f62fb7e8-d024-452e-a937-9c6672230817''

At the given location there is no dump file.

Do you guys have any Idea why this happens and how I can fix it?

Involved software:

$ flatpak --version
Flatpak 1.15.4

$ flatpak remotes
Name    Optionen
flathub system

$ flatpak info com.valvesoftware.Steam | grep Version | awk '{print $2}'
1.0.0.78

$ uname -rms
Linux 6.4.10-arch1-1 x86_64

$ openbox --version | head -n1
Openbox 3.6.1

$ pacman -Qi xorg-server | grep Version | awk '{print $3}'
21.1.8-2
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[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Did you also delete the steam user data when reinstalling it? Regardless, I found a Github issue that looks very similar to yours. Apparently this was caused by a beta update? But this was about 4 months ago? Weird.

Anyway, the suggested fix was to first reset steam with flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam --reset And then opt out of any potential beta: com.valvesoftware.Steam -clearbeta

Not sure if this really is the same issue, but it's definitely worth a try.

Edit: Seems like on some systems, removing the package xdg-desktop-portal-gnome also fixed it. Don't know if it also applies to the flatpak, but just try it. Just remember to install the package again if it doesn't fix it. It may be needed for some other things.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you also delete the steam user data when reinstalling it?

On one page I found a set of rm commands for resetting Steam issues and adapted it to the Flatpak version.

rm -r ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/                    
rm -r ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steam/
rm ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steampath
rm ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.steampid
rm -r ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.cache/nvidia/GLCache/

flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam --reset

Resetting it like this seems to work a bit. The Steam interface started up one time and after logging in and restarting it, it now does the same thing as before.

Seems like on some systems, removing the package xdg-desktop-portal-gnome also fixed it.

It is not installed.

$ pacman -Ss xdg-desktop | grep installed
extra/xdg-desktop-portal 1.16.0-3 [installed]
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.14.1-1 [installed]

I can’t remove those because botha are directly and/or indirectlz dependencies for Flatpak.

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay, well then we'll need to investigate further. 

On one page I found a set of rm commands for resetting Steam issues and adapted it to the Flatpak version.

While these commands will delete most of the steam stuff, just in case you didn't know, for any flatpak you can run flatpak uninstall --delete-data to delete all user data for uninstalled apps. Or, if you don't want to uninstall the app first, just deleting ~/.var/app/the app you want to delete the data of will also do the trick. That, just as a small side note.

Resetting it like this seems to work a bit. The Steam interface started up one time and after logging in and restarting it, it now does the same thing as before.

That's something at least. Why don't we try something? Maybe the beta version will fix it? When you have the steam client open, try switching to the beta version of it. You can do that by opening the steam settings, go to interface and select the beta. If that also doesn't work, try launching it with -no-cef-sandbox, as that also fixed it for some people.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for your help!

flatpak uninstall --delete-data

Okay, not it gets weird. I uninstalled Steam with deleting the data. Then I reinstalled it and now does die the double GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good with several seconds of “hangign” again after all the initialization stuff and it then crashes again as described but in addition to that it also now hangs for several seconds at CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize.

The weird thing is: now I can’t even start/reset it with flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam --reset anymore.

[...]
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[159]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[159]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
steamwebhelper.sh[159]: CEF sandbox already disabled
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Fatal assert; application exiting
08/18 11:32:52 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(152)
assert_20230818113252_28.dmp[273]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20230818113252_28.dmp
dirk ~ $
assert_20230818113252_28.dmp[273]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20230818113252_28.dmp[273]: response: CrashID=bp-ccf87007-b170-434a-ad01-b780e2230818
assert_20230818113252_28.dmp[273]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230818113252_28.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-ccf87007-b170-434a-ad01-b780e2230818''

-no-cef-sandbox

This unfortunately makes no difference.

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm starting to think that your flatpak runtimes might be corrupted.

You can try reinstalling the one used by steam. Uninstall with

flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/22.08

And then install it again with

flatpak install org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/22.08

To eliminate any other potential issues I'd recommend deleting the steam user folder as well before launching it again. Like I told you earlier.

Edit: It's hilarious, I find many people having the exact same issue but never with the Flatpak version. Some even use the Flatpak version as a workaround. Very weird.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m starting to think that your flatpak runtimes might be corrupted.

I am using Pixelorama and Airshipper as Flatpaks without any issues. The only application that does not work is Steam.

flatpak remove org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/22.08

I could not uninstall it because Pixelorama and Airshipper needed it (as well as Steam, of course). So I removed all of them before, then removed the package and reinstalled it. Then I started up Steam and it crashed again with the same error message and behavior. It loaded Steam, the update messages were shown, the steam popups popped up, but at the end, well, this again:

GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[5479]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[5479]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
steamwebhelper.sh[5479]: CEF sandbox already disabled
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Fatal assert; application exiting
08/18 23:36:47 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5473)
assert_20230818233647_29.dmp[5780]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20230818233647_29.dmp
dirk ~ $
assert_20230818233647_29.dmp[5780]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20230818233647_29.dmp[5780]: response: CrashID=bp-9ef905ea-c25f-429b-9f2a-2ce832230818
assert_20230818233647_29.dmp[5780]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230818233647_29.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-9ef905ea-c25f-429b-9f2a-2ce832230818''

I also tried flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam --reset again as it allowed me to start Steam once. But no, same result. Hangs for quite some time at the first GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good and circa the same duration onn CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize and them mentions a nonexistent log file.

I wonder if there is a clean way to thoroughly remove all and everything coming from Flatpak. At this point I don’t even care if there is any data lost ...

$ flatpak list
Name                            Anwendungskennung                                        Version            Zweig                 Installation
Pixelorama                      com.orama_interactive.Pixelorama                         0.11.1             stable                system
Steam                           com.valvesoftware.Steam                                  1.0.0.78           stable                system
Airshipper                      net.veloren.airshipper                                   0.10.0             stable                system
Freedesktop Platform            org.freedesktop.Platform                                 22.08.14           22.08                 system
i386                            org.freedesktop.Platform.Compat.i386                                        22.08                 system
Mesa                            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                      23.1.4             22.08                 system
Mesa (Extra)                    org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.default                      23.1.4             22.08-extra           system
nvidia-535-98                   org.freedesktop.Platform.GL.nvidia-535-98                                   1.4                   system
Mesa                            org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                    23.1.4             22.08                 system
Mesa (Extra)                    org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.default                    23.1.4             22.08-extra           system
nvidia-535-86-05                org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-86-05                              1.4                   system
nvidia-535-98                   org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-535-98                                 1.4                   system
openh264                        org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264                        2.1.0              2.2.0                 system

It’s hilarious, I find many people having the exact same issue but never with the Flatpak version. Some even use the Flatpak version as a workaround. Very weird.

Yeah ... And it even makes no sense either. It started up before and let me log in but the next start it crashed and now it always crashes no matter what I do. There seems also no-one else in the world affected by this.

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All this is seriously so weird...

Okay, so the runtimes were fine, good to know. Btw, you can remove runtimes without first removing the apps that depend on them. They just won't work any more until you install it again.

I wonder if there is a clean way to thoroughly remove all and everything coming from Flatpak. At this point I don’t even care if there is any data lost …

Not an official one, but this should do the trick if you really want to delete everything. If you want to, you could back up the user files for your other Flatpaks first.

1.flatpak uninstall --all --delete-data

2.Remove flatpak with your package manager

3.sudo rm -rf /var/lib/flatpak /var/cache/flatpak ~/.local/share/flatpak ~/.cache/flatpak ~/.local/share/flatpak ~/.cache/flatpak /etc/flatpak

4.Reboot

5.Install flatpak again

6.Add flathub

7.Install steam

If that also doesn't work, I'm 95% certain it has to be one of your system packages. Weird that a system package would break any Flatpaks though... What distro are you using anyway?

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Btw, you can remove runtimes without first removing the apps that depend on them.

I tried first, but it just complained that Steam (and the other two Flatpaks) needed the package and it aborted the removal process.

Anyways, I uninstalled all Flatpaks as you described, removed the directories, removed the Flatpak package, did a reboot, ran a full system update and installed Flatpak and did another reboot just to be sure and just installed Steam this time.

It starts getting hilarious. Same, Friggin. Result. Installation works without any issues, update works without any issues, the popups show, the console output looks fine, and then this again at the end:

GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[5479]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[5479]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
steamwebhelper.sh[5479]: CEF sandbox already disabled
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Fatal assert; application exiting
08/19 00:40:11 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(5473)
assert_20230819004011_29.dmp[5779]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20230819004011_29.dmp
dirk ~ $
assert_20230819004011_29.dmp[5779]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20230819004011_29.dmp[5779]: response: CrashID=bp-5698e954-748a-45d6-a5d4-7aa7a2230818
assert_20230819004011_29.dmp[5779]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230819004011_29.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-5698e954-748a-45d6-a5d4-7aa7a2230818''

I’m 95% certain it has to be one of your system packages.

Since everything regarding Flatpak was removed, including all caches, configuration files and data I am pretty sure that it has to do something specificially with the Steam Flatpak because my system as a whole works properly and and all other Flatpaks I have installed also work properly …

What distro are you using anyway?

I’m on Arch. I have listed all involved application’s version numbers at the end of my original post.

Edit: Not sure if it helps, but here’s the full installation/update output:

https://nopaste.net/QJI3c2Amz5

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am pretty sure that it has to do something specificially with the Steam Flatpak

That is also possible. But then why is it working for everyone else? I used the steam flatpak multiple times today with no issues. I guess you could also ask the same question for the system package issue theory.

How about the package manager version? Is that working? That could give some hints on whether it's the system or the Flatpak package.

Arch, yes. This is what all the people who had to remove xdg Desktop portal use. How could they remove it if it's a dependency of flatpak? Maybe they don't have flatpak.

If you have too much time on your hands, you could try another fresh arch installation on another hard-drive. If it works there, we know it has to be a system package. If it doesn't, it's probably the Flatpak.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But then why is it working for everyone else?

That’s the question here :) Flatpak it self can’t be the issue because other Flatpaks work. My system can’t be the issue because my system works. And yes, the Steam Flatpak on it’s own also can’t be the issue because then more people would be affected and I would find something during web research.

How about the package manager version?

There isn't really a Steam version in the repos but only in multilib. So I enabled it and installed steam from there. It also crashes. The only difference is that there are some fontconfig things it cannot understand.

GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[19338]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[19338]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
Fontconfig warning: line 5: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 72: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 72: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 80: saw unknown, expected number
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-yes-antialias.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/11-lcdfilter-default.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/20-unhint-small-vera.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/40-nonlatin.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-generic.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/45-latin.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/48-spacing.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/49-sansserif.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/50-user.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/51-local.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-generic.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (540) : Fatal assert; application exiting
08/19 01:26:26 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1690583737)/tid(19319)
assert_20230819012626_30.dmp[19438]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20230819012626_30.dmp
dirk ~ $
assert_20230819012626_30.dmp[19438]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20230819012626_30.dmp[19438]: response: CrashID=bp-175add07-33af-421a-a870-828612230818
assert_20230819012626_30.dmp[19438]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230819012626_30.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-175add07-33af-421a-a870-828612230818''

So it's Steam in combination with my system. This time the mentioned dump is there but it does not contain any information I could use/understand.

This is what all the people who had to remove xdg Desktop portal use. How could they remove it if it’s a dependency of flatpak?

When reinstalling Flatpak it asked for xdg-desktop-portal-impl to be installed and offered multiple packages that provide it.

dirk ~ $ pacman -Ss xdg-desktop-portal | grep installed
extra/xdg-desktop-portal 1.16.0-3 [installed]
extra/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk 1.14.1-1 [installed]

It also worked earlier during testing (at least one time it started up and let me log in but subsequently it crashed on any of the further tries) so all dependencies are satisfied.

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay... Now that you have the non flatpak steam, could you remove flatpak and xdg-desktop-portal*?

Reboot and launch steam again.

This is the last idea I have for now... If this also doesn't help, it is probably a different issue than this and this, and you should report it to valve.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for all your help with this. Unfortunately Steam still scrashes. The xdg-pdesktop-portal packages aren’t installed. Only the Flatpak package seems to have them as hard dependency.

Valve said they won’t give any support here because I’m not using Ubuntu with Gnome.

So no more Steam games for me, I guess …

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This just can't be...

After some deep digging, I found one last Idea. Try launching steam with the -vgui flag and let me know if that works.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This just can’t be…

Yep. This makes no sense at all. But I have no idea what to try anymore.

Try launching steam with the -vgui flag

Unfortunately this does not change the behavior. It still does the same thing as described before.

[–] DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well that's that then. I also have no idea what to try anymore... I guess you'll just have to wait until some random update fixes the issue. Sorry.

Edit: Since you reinstalled everything, I think it could be some cache on your system that went bad. That would explain why both the Flatpak and native versions don't work and why the rest of your system works. But I have no idea where that cache might be...

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yep ... It magically broke so it hopefully will magically be fixed 😀

Thanks for all your support on this!

[–] Jontique@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I also have an issue when starting up Flatpak Steam on Nobara. Steam started suddenly "bootlooping". It appears in the background tasks of GNOME and disappeara after a few seconds.

I found a workaround, however; Start by closing it in the backround apps, right-clicking Steam on the dock and selecting any page to open to, like friends or store

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Hey @DeeBeeDouble@lemmy.ml remember the Steam issue you helped me with some time ago? I just felt I’ll let you know 🙂

Here’s fun little update on this …

No relevant software was changed, but with the latest system update the Steam Flatpak runs all the udpates as it did before, but now this is logged (all the update and initial installation/setup stuff was done at this point):

INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki
INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam
DEBUG:root:Checking input devices permissions
WARNING:root:Missing permissions for input devices
INFO:root:Overriding TZ to Europe/Berlin
steam.sh[2]: Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 23.08 64-bit
steam.sh[2]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[74]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Startup - updater built Sep 11 2023 20:48:54
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-no-cef-sandbox'
09/22 21:54:27 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1694466342)/tid(137)
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 3. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Verifying installation...
[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Verification complete

Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/logs

XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf044a8f0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf04491c0
steamwebhelper.sh[143]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[143]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
steamwebhelper.sh[143]: CEF sandbox already disabled
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 35 milliseconds to initialize
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 222
steam-runtime-launcher-service[222]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 222 exited
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 250
steam-runtime-launcher-service[250]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 250 exited
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 259
steam-runtime-launcher-service[259]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 259 exited
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service keeps crashing on startup, disabling
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (543) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (543) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
09/22 21:55:16 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1694466342)/tid(137)
assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20230922215516_28.dmp
assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: response: CrashID=bp-0f81ef33-d093-4fd1-b98c-8bd202230922
assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230922215516_28.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-0f81ef33-d093-4fd1-b98c-8bd202230922''
steamwebhelper.sh[278]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[278]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
steamwebhelper.sh[278]: CEF sandbox already disabled

During this log output this message pops up at some point:

But no matter what I select except Restart steamwebhelper the Flatpak quits and nothing more happens. When Restart steamwebhelper is selected sometimes the steam UI shows up but I cannot select anything from any dropdowns and cannot change most of the settings sliders. But most of the time this is logged and nothing happens:

[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Background update loop checking for update. . .
[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Checking for available updates...
[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12?t=3700310497
[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Manifest download: send request
[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Manifest download: finished
[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12?t=3700310497 version 1694466342, installed version 1694466342, existing pending version 0
[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Nothing to do

So we’re a bit further with this now. I now get an error message most of the time and occasionally can see the steam UI with partial access 🤣

So, who knows … maybe 2-3 more months and I can use Steam again like before …