Steam not launching after upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04

[Bib-lost]

Hi,

After upgrading my system from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, I had some graphical glitched and had to reinstall xorg. Everything seemed to work fine, except that I could not launch Steam anymore. I tried reinstalling Steam, including removing all the Steam related folders in /home, but to no avail.

The terminal output does not seem to point towards any missing packages or anything, so I am out of ideas. Most of the related reports I find online are eventually related to proprietary graphics drivers of dedicated GPU's, but I only have an integrated Intel chipset.

 Running Steam on ubuntu 20.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
/home/nicolas/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
[2020-11-07 11:21:05] Startup - updater built Jul 28 2020 22:37:33
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
free(): invalid pointer
crash_20201107112105_1.dmp[11203]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/crash_20201107112105_1.dmp
/home/nicolas/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: regel 750: 11196 Afgebroken              (geheugendump gemaakt) $STEAM_DEBUGGER "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"

[tfk]

After removing the steam related directories in your home directory does a reset work?

steam --reset

[Bib-lost]

Nope, same output I'm afraid.

[Sir.Sputnik]

Same Problem here.
Steam only starts with Wayland, but wayland has terrible performance on my Intel GPU.
So i like to run Steam under Xorg, i cant find any solutions in the web.
Anybody here with an solution ore an Answer what the Problem is.
I get no errors ore something when i start steam from terminal.
The process starts normal but the steam window dont come up.

Thx for any infos.

[Ormgryd]

IMPORTANT!
Make sure you graphics drivers are updated! This is very very important and can show this error.

Added~
Also try remove the steam folder inside ~/.steam and open terminal and go 'steam --reset' and se if it solves the problem.

Another thing is you could try to remove everything steam 'purge steam'
'remove /.local/share/Steam'
and then reinstall it all again.

[buttmunch]

Probably broke a dependency. . maybe?
Sometimes upgrading distro can break it in general. Thats why always best to do fresh install, not saying you cant ever upgrade... but sometimes have to do fresh install anyway.

[tfk]

Hm found this:

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/4433

[Bib-lost]

Dear all, thanks for your comments, here is some feedback:

* Starting on Wayland gives the same terminal output. I am not that sure whether the xorg reinstall had anything to do with it.
* I have aleady tried removing ~/.local/share/Steam and ~/.steam . I tried purging steam, I tried installing either the version in Ubuntu's repository or the one from the .deb on the website, but same results. The precise terminal output is slightly different for both versions of the package.
* Graphics drivers are up to date, and again: I have simply an Intel chipset, not any kind of graphics card notorious for causing troubles.
* The solution proposed in the linked bug report did not solve the issue, @tfk
* Sure, I could wipe my hard disk and reinstall Ubuntu, then take a few days to configure the computer again to my liking. Might have to do that eventually, but would prefer to figure out what the problem is, given that my computer otherwise seems to work just perfectly.

[Ormgryd]

In terminal try run 'STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam' That can list some dependencies missing perhaps.

[Pogopuschel[LzZ]]

I also just had the problem that Steam would not start anymore, rm -rf ~/.steam && steam --reset worked for me! Thanks everyone!

[josh]

Originally posted by PogopuschelLzZ:

I also just had the problem that Steam would not start anymore, rm -rf ~/.steam && steam --reset worked for me! Thanks everyone!

thanks this worked for me too!

[Rin Yamaoka]

root@Kyles-PC20:~# steam
steam.sh[55367]: Running Steam on ubuntu 22.04 64-bit
steam.sh[55367]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[55437]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[55367]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
root@Kyles-PC20:~# STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
steam.sh[55718]: Running Steam on ubuntu 22.04 64-bit
steam.sh[55718]: STEAM_RUNTIME is disabled by the user
steam.sh[55718]: Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libpipewire-0.3.so.0
libxcb-res.so.0
libvdpau.so.1
libbz2.so.1.0
steam.sh[55718]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway

[nobleberry]

Originally posted by Kyle:

root@Kyles-PC20:~# steam
steam.sh[55367]: Running Steam on ubuntu 22.04 64-bit
steam.sh[55367]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[55437]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[55367]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
root@Kyles-PC20:~# STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
steam.sh[55718]: Running Steam on ubuntu 22.04 64-bit
steam.sh[55718]: STEAM_RUNTIME is disabled by the user
steam.sh[55718]: Error: You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libpipewire-0.3.so.0
libxcb-res.so.0
libvdpau.so.1
libbz2.so.1.0
steam.sh[55718]: Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway

You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:
libpipewire-0.3.so.0
libxcb-res.so.0
libvdpau.so.1
libbz2.so.1.0
as far as I know, ubuntu tries quite hard to get rid of 32 bit libraries. check if you need to enable some additional repository to install 32 bit packages

[kitty]

Originally posted by Kyle:

root@Kyles-PC20:~# steam

don't run it from root. use your user account for that. steam doesn't run from root

[D. Flame]

This is the kind of issue that gets me to install Steam from Flatpak instead of system .

[kitty]

Originally posted by D. Flame:

This is the kind of issue that gets me to install Steam from Flatpak instead of system .

yeah, we're aware of your love for flatpaks.