[SOLVED] Steam not updating or installing games

[Izberion]

Earlier this week Steam suddenly stopped updating games. I can't install anything either. I've tried running from terminal but everything looks normal. I do have a firewall, but the updates and installs were working fine before this.

Anyway I went and forwarded the ports Steam requires and still no change. It's definitely a problem with my Linux machine. My windows install doesn't have this problem. I don't use windows often but I checked to make sure updating and installing worked there when this problem popped up.

I've even gone to the point of wiping the iptables rules and disabling the systemd service. Didn't help. Right now I have five games queued up and the network and disc monitors on the download page are idling at 0 bytes. The total downloaded is 0 bytes and the peak is 0 bytes.

Updating to the beta client (did it for the steam controller) didn't change the problem either. So now I've restored my firewall and have been searching for any kind of hint that this is affecting anyone else and I can't find anything. I'm not sure what I can do but I'm glad I've been mainly buying games from GOG for the past year. Still, there are games here I would like to play but are stuck forever trying to update.

If anyone has any idea what's up that'd be great. Since it might matter I'm running Arch.

[WalkingHazard]

Same problem here last couple of days. Research indicates (from content_log.txt) that steam is getting a timeout on getting manifest files. Not sure how to proceed.

[Izberion]

I'm going to try to reinstall Steam. Probably won't do anything but who knows.

EDIT: Nope. Didn't think so. I don't want to completely wipe Steam since I'm not sure I'll be able to reinstall my games.

[WalkingHazard]

Have you tried changing your download region? That worked for me. Changed to London, UK even though I'm in the US.

[Izberion]

Well that worked. Were you hooked up to the Boston server by any chance?

EDIT: Just switched back to Boston and it's working there too. A well at least it's solved.

[WalkingHazard]

It was boston when it wasn't working. I had to do the same for my ARK Linux steam server as well... but harder to change the download region for the server.