cannot create regular file

[ruben.moor]

Fresh install of steam on NixOS 20.09

After installing for the first time, steam runs w/o problem.

Any consequent start, I get

cp: cannot create regular file '$HOME/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz': Permission denied

Running

> steam --reset

gives same:

cp: cannot create regular file '$HOME/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz': Permission denied


Any idea what's going on?

[ruben.moor]

I seem to have fixed it by

> cd ~/.local/share/Steam
> mv bootstrap.tar.xz bootstrap.tar.xz.backup

This particular file has permissions

-r--r--r--

which I interpret as: not writable. This should be fixed in the nixos repo I guess.

[ruben.moor]

And I realize, there have been a lot of updates to the steam nix package:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/games/steam/steam.nix

I'll switch to unstable to see, if it's fixed there.

[class101 [OLED deck]]

Weird issue indeed. Nor it is localized to Steam/Nix old issue nor you have a much larger problem, any files in your home should be at least rw- for the owner

[ruben.moor]

by going back from unstable.steam to 20.09 again, I got it all working now. On unstable I got the 307 all the time.

[karma]

pro