Steam refusing to open. | Linux btw | Page 1

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:03 PM

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While it was working just recently, like a day ago, Steam has suddenly stopped working. I have tried to restart the computer, uninstall steam, reinstall, reset, run without graphics acceleration. When I run from the terminal it looks like the image. ..... Really hoping you guys can help. Another server already turned me away. xD

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:17 PM

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uhhh so are your driver stuff for gpu up to date and correct

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:19 PM

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AFAIK

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:20 PM

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run this rq steam 2>&1 | tee steam_crash.log

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:21 PM

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merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:22 PM

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uhhhhh

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run it through this ~/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:24 PM

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merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:24 PM

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hmm

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so does steam just crash or just no windows pop up

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:25 PM

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No window pops up

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When I run on KDE instead of Hypr, it opens on the taskbar for a bit, seeming like it is loading or something. And then closes. But no window pops up.

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:26 PM

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run it with this STEAM_DEBUG=1 ~/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:26 PM

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So it does SOMETHING

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:26 PM

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might shiw something in a file which is believe is in uhh

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~/.local/share/Steam/logs/bootstrap_log.txt

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:27 PM

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Woah. Lots popped up with the debug.

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:28 PM

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can you show what popped up

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:28 PM

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merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:32 PM

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can you kill all steam processes

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killall -9 steam steam.sh steamwebhelper with that i think

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:33 PM

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merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:34 PM

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ok

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soooo oh yeah

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try deleting the runtime stuff and reinstalling steam again

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rm -rf ~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime

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also where did you install steam from flatpak for aur

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:36 PM

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should I try a different way?

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:37 PM

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ok uh

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do steam --reset

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:38 PM

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merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:39 PM

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hm ok

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do sudo pacman -S steam-native-runtime

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and run steam-native

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:40 PM

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merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:42 PM

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can you use a aur helper like yay or paru to get it

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oh wait

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try steam-native it already be there

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:43 PM

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merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:44 PM

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uhh

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el solution could just be wiping everything steam related

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if you want to do that

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:45 PM

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Ok. How do?

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xD

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:45 PM

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this kills the steam processes killall -9 steam 2>/dev/null
this deletes everything steam related rm -rf ~/.local/share/Steam ~/.steam

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:46 PM

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merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:46 PM

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and try just reinstalling everything

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:47 PM

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so uh

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I deleted that...

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And saw steam was still in my apps.

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So I ran it.

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:48 PM

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yeah

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:48 PM

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There are no windows.

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But it says it is running now.

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Progress?

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:49 PM

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do you have flatpak steam installed?

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:51 PM

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I don't think so?

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Ok.

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Running it through flatpak. Seems to be updating.

merry flame May 28, 2026, 8:54 PM

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does it work

digital swift May 28, 2026, 8:55 PM

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THAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK you.

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Do we know what happened?

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Or is it just be glad it works?

merry flame May 28, 2026, 9:01 PM

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be glad it works lmao

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no clue what the problem was

digital swift May 28, 2026, 9:02 PM

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Fair enough. xD

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