[Bug]Steam reboots instead of shutting down

[Sir Finley Mrrgglton]

I'm having a weird bug since today's update. Whenever I click Steam->Exit steam closes but then immediately restarts... Am I the only one experiencing this issue ?

[sounds like a wooosh]

no

[Blumimic]

I'm having it too.

[dasm]

Here the same. Steam quits in second attempt. First time it restarts

[Tweak]

I believe this issue has been reported already

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/605

[Rain Shinobi]

Only happened once for me too. Not a problem now.

[icecoldhaterade \\DzG//]

Yea last night steam update really rustled some jimmys

[Rain Shinobi]

Well I spoke too early, it still does sometimes restart after exit lol

[matt]

It seems that Steam likes our Linux machines so much, he just refuse to go away :)

[DHIWE_CPAHOE]

1. Starting steam. It installs some updates(yes, every time). Then I starting the game(Killing Floor, for instance), and got
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; SteamAPI_IsSteamRunning() failed.
[S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to locate a running instance of Steam, or a local steamclient.dll.

and see that:
user@comp ~/.steam $ ls -l
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 24 jan. 10 16:26 bin -> /home/user/.steam/bin32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 35 jan. 10 16:26 bin32 -> /home/user/.steam/root/ubuntu12_32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 35 jan. 10 16:26 bin64 -> /home/user/.steam/root/ubuntu12_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1125 jan. 10 16:26 registry.vdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 23 jan. 10 16:36 root -> /home/user/.steam/root
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 jan. 10 16:26 starting
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 23 jan. 10 16:26 steam -> /home/user/.steam/root
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 6 jan. 10 16:26 steam.pid
prw------- 1 user user 0 jan. 10 16:26 steam.pipe
(lots of broken symlinks)

I shutdown steam client. Immediately it restarts, installs something again, and work nice..in .steam I can see
user@comp ~/.steam $ ls -l
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 24 jan. 10 16:37 bin -> /home/user/.steam/bin32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 42 jan. 10 16:37 bin32 -> /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 42 jan. 10 16:37 bin64 -> /home/user/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 1125 jan. 10 16:37 registry.vdf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 30 jan. 10 16:37 root -> /home/user/.local/share/Steam
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 0 jan. 10 16:37 starting
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user 30 jan. 10 16:37 steam -> /home/user/.local/share/Steam
-rw-r--r-- 1 user user 6 jan. 10 16:37 steam.pid
prw------- 1 user user 0 jan. 10 16:37 steam.pipe

Bad wrapper script? Or something like that?

[Evil Bee]

Just to confirm that this happens to me too, pretty much everytime, though will close properly on the 2nd run. Kubuntu 12.04

[vargablood]

same here. ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 Bit. could get more worse :P

[matt]

confirmed: Ubuntu 12.10 64bit (Unity)

[[Linux] DGFone]

Also confirming. It's like Stream fails to start up properly, and needs the restart to find itself.

[Stolid]

I also have the same problem as zapolz. Killing Floor claims no internet until I close Steam and run it again (which Steam does automatically after clicking exit...strange).

[[Linux] timopm]

Fixed in today's update.