Gentoo Steamui.so failed

[...]

Gentoo 64bit, Fatal Error: Failed to load steamui.so

All dependencies were installed through the gentoo steam-overlay, manual installation of actual steam.

[mala]

same issue here. Console output:
Setting up Steam content in /home/ojensen/.local/share/Steam
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1.0_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354745237_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354745237_client)

[ash The Stampede]

Yeah I've got the same thing. Tracing flow through the scripts would be easier if no two scripts had the same name :)

[Aatch]

I had this issue, on Archlinux though, you are likely missing some dependencies.

The PKGBUILD for the pacman package lists these dependencies:

'bash'
'desktop-file-utils'
'hicolor-icon-theme'
'curl'
'dbus'
'freetype2'
 'gdk-pixbuf2'
'ttf-liberation'

as standard and these have to be 32-bit:

'glu'
'libpng12'
'sdl'
'libpulse'
'alsa-lib'
'libvorbis'
'libgcrypt'
'nss'
'openal'
'gtk2'
'glu'

(The actual 32-bit Arch packages are:

'lib32-sdl' 'lib32-libvorbis' 'lib32-alsa-lib' 'lib32-libgcrypt' 'lib32-gtk2' 'lib32-nss' 'lib32-openal' 'lib32-libpng12' 'lib32-libpulse' 'lib32-libcanberra' 'lib32-glu'

just so you know)

Hopefully that helps.

Oh, and if you want the basic explanation of why you get that error, basically it loads steamui.so which triggers ld to load more libraries (which might load more and so on), when they fail (because they don't exist), then steam reports steamui.so as failed.

[ash The Stampede]

Thanks Aatch!

I jumped through hoops with LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LD_PRELOAD, ldd, etc to figure out what libs were necessary. But it turns out that all we need to do is 'emerge steam-client-meta':
https://github.com/anyc/steam-overlay/pull/7

edit: or, use 'emerge steam-meta' to get both the installer and the 32-bit packages
edit2: so far, so good -- TF2 beta is downloading :D

[bwdenton]

portage noob question, how to i get portage to pull in "steam-meta"? is it like apt? do i add a source? thanks in advance

[bwdenton]

nevermind, fixed my problems

[Shandy]

(Assuming amd64) Just make sure that you emerge these deps AFTER emerging gcc 4.6.3:

>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20121028
>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20121028
>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-opengl-20121028
>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-sdl-20121028
>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-20121028
>=app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs-20121028
virtual/opengl

also the fonts:

media-fonts/font-bitstream-100dpi

[BlackestDawn]

@Shandy
Why?
I just pulled in steam-meta and steam started up without any problems after emerge was done with all, and fore reference those packages were pulled in before that gcc.

[Shandy]

Steam wasn't in portage when I installed it.

[p]

this is what i did:

-first satisfy the dependencies using portage referencing:

http://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Steam&redirect=no#Dependencies

-you only need to

emerge --ask @steam

once after creating

/etc/portage/sets/steam

then install steam to a user home directory like so:

cd ~/

mkdir Steam

cd Steam

wget http://media.steampowered.com/client/installer/steam.deb

ar vx steam.deb data.tar.gz

tar xOf data.tar.gz ./usr/lib/steam/bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz | tar xvJ

rm -f steam.deb data.tar.gz ./usr/lib/steam/bootstraplinux_ubuntu12_32.tar.xz

./steam.sh

source:
http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/games/print-480270-installing-steam-linux-beta-4.html

[master_zion]

Try this!
2 commands... Works on Ubuntu 12.10 X64
------------------

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib32:/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/mesa:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH/usr/bin/steam:~/.steam/bin32


~/.steam/bin32

[master_zion]

if not worked, try remove the local usser folder, re-execute using menu and repeat last step
rm -rf ~/.steam/bin32

[ashl1]

Why don't you use just simple command?
layman -a gamerlay
emerge steam-meta
steam
And you only will worry about to solve package dependencies...

[BlackestDawn]

@Shandy
Still doesn't explain why you think installing them in that order would be necessary, espcially considering that only the gcc package is compiled localy.

As for the ebuild, didn't know (and really care) about it until I saw an update to the gamerlay overlay (which for some reason is actually used as opposed to the official games overlay).

[Kobnar]

I had the same problem. To fix it I used LD_DEBUG to find my problem which led me to manually installing the following packages:

• virtual/libstdc++-3.3
  
• media-libs/libtxc_dxtn-1.0.1

... and unmasking a more recent gcc:

• sys-devel/gcc-4.6.3

Then I added the "gamerlay" overlay (because I didn't know about it at the time) and emerged steam-meta.

Steam starts up fine for me now. I'm just having issues connecting to the server. Hope this helps!