Ubuntu 12.10 x64 and steam client

[koljah]

I've downloaded the steam client from this site. But when I start the steam client in a termial i get this error:

...:~$ steam:
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354555924_client)
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3702 with name 0eBlobRegistryMutex_8C877C3B446CD4682A73B08BFB855241
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3702 with name 0eBlobRegistrySignal_8C877C3B446CD4682A73B08BFB855241
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3702 with name 0emSteamEngineInstance
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3702 with name 0eSteamEngineLock
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "overlay-scrollbar"
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20121205182509_1.dmp
success = yes
response:  CrashID=bp-cd1a4aef-075e-4a3e-96a5-6cb442121205

/home/callya/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Zeile 325:  3759 Speicherzugriffsfehler  (Speicherabzug geschrieben) $DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

With sudo:

...:~$ sudo steam
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3759 with name 0eBlobRegistryMutex_8C877C3B446CD4682A73B08BFB855241
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3759 with name 0eBlobRegistrySignal_8C877C3B446CD4682A73B08BFB855241
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3759 with name 0emSteamEngineInstance
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3759 with name 0eSteamEngineLock
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)

(process:3817): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently running setuid or setgid.
This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
program instead. For further details, see:

    http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html

Refusing to initialize GTK+.
surface_linux.cpp (1324) : Assertion Failed: X context is not using direct rendering. Unfasten your seatbelt...

Assert( Assertion Failed: X context is not using direct rendering. Unfasten your seatbelt...
 ):/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/vgui2/src/surface_linux.cpp:1324

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/assert_20121205182641_1.dmp
success = no
error:  Failed to open/read local data from file/application
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Generating new string page texture 12: 48x256, total string texture memory is 49,15 KB
Generating new string page texture 13: 256x256, total string texture memory is 311,30 KB
Generating new string page texture 14: 128x256, total string texture memory is 442,37 KB
Generating new string page texture 15: 384x256, total string texture memory is 835,58 KB
threadtools.cpp (3111) : Assertion Failed: Thread cannot be joined with self
threadtools.cpp (2888) : Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'UICEFThread'
Assert( Assertion Failed: Illegal termination of worker thread 'UICEFThread' ):/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/tier0/threadtools.cpp:2888

Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(Steam)/version(1354555924_client)
Uploading dump (in-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/assert_20121205182703_2.dmp
success = no
error:  Failed to open/read local data from file/application
threadtools.cpp (2889) : Assertion Failed: Deleting thread object from the thread, this is bad
CAsyncIOManager: 0 threads terminating.  0 reads, 0 writes, 0 deferrals.
CAsyncIOManager: 275 single object sleeps, 109 multi object sleeps
CAsyncIOManager: 0 single object alertable sleeps, 2 multi object alertable sleeps
/home/callya/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: Zeile 325:  3817 Speicherzugriffsfehler  (Speicherabzug geschrieben) $DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$PLATFORM/$STEAMEXE" "$@"

The window from steam pops up for a short time. I can choose to login but if I click on that, I get the following message: "Unable to connect to the steam network [...]".
After a short time it disappears.
Does someone has similar problems...or does someone know how to fix it?

[mdkcore]

are you behind a firewall or something like that?

[Routhinator]

I'm runnin Xubuntu 12.10 x64 so our package base is the same. I'm running it without issue. I was running it on Ubuntu 12.10 x64bit as well. First off make sure you put in the following required files:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs libpci3:i386


Without libpci3:i386 you'll get a lot of clipping and artifact problems with games, as well as poor performance. Without ia32 you will have problems with games being unable to find their executables. I also had issues with the steam chat list and oddities without them.

I suggest you get that in, then toast your steam installation and retry a clean install with the above libraries....

I do not believe this to be a true connectivity issue. The end message is a generic 'unable to connect' granted.. however the messages in the logs do not seem to coincide with a connectivity problem.

[DaVince]

Początkowo opublikowane przez ManiaX:

With sudo:

Why did you attempt to run steam as root? That seems like an exceedingly bad idea, considering it creates some directories in your home directory on first run... (Could mess up permissions on those dirs if you run as root... and don't give userspace apps root permission so easily!)

[☭ [ YUNG STALIN ] ☭]

It wouldn't do anything to the directories/files in his $HOME created on the first run under that user. Steam would create all the first-run stuff for root in /root, which is root's $HOME.

EDIT: ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT