Steam Refuses to Launch in Linux anymore

[miaurye]

So, ever since I reinstalled my installation of Linux Mint, Steam has been broken. It used to work fine, but now all it does is open and close. I went ahead and ran it through a terminal, and here is the output.

Running Steam on linuxmint 19.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
[2019-07-26 21:11:36] Startup - updater built Jul 17 2019 06:13:47
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContext
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request:  155 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
Value in failed request:  0x0
Serial number of failed request:  48
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Major opcode of failed request:  155 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request:  6 (X_GLXIsDirect)
Serial number of failed request:  49
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2019-07-26 21:11:36] Checking for update on startup
[2019-07-26 21:11:36] Checking for available updates...
[2019-07-26 21:11:36] Downloading manifest: client-download.steampowered.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2019-07-26 21:11:36] Download skipped by HTTP 304 Not Modified
[2019-07-26 21:11:36] Nothing to do
[2019-07-26 21:11:36] Verifying installation...
[2019-07-26 21:11:36] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2019-07-26 21:11:37] Verification complete

The flatpak version runs fine, though it is limited in the sense that I can only use a single drive to store my games, and cannot make desktop entries. If anyone else has had this issue, do let me know.

[Teotwawki]

Missing 32 bit libraries?

I've seen a couple of people on mint forums mentioning they had to install an older 32bit nvidia driver, as their latest driver doesn't have a 32bit version (apparently).

It's been suggested to use

sudo apt-get install libnvidia-gl-390:i386

[miaurye]

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

Missing 32 bit libraries?

I've seen a couple of people on mint forums mentioning they had to install an older 32bit nvidia driver, as their latest driver doesn't have a 32bit version (apparently).

It's been suggested to use

sudo apt-get install libnvidia-gl-390:i386

I'll give it a go. I recently distro-hopped back to Mint after driver complications with Debian, so I could very well be missing that package.

[miaurye]

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

Missing 32 bit libraries?

I've seen a couple of people on mint forums mentioning they had to install an older 32bit nvidia driver, as their latest driver doesn't have a 32bit version (apparently).

It's been suggested to use

sudo apt-get install libnvidia-gl-390:i386

+1 That seemed to do it, thank you!

[RocketCityTim]

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

Missing 32 bit libraries?

I've seen a couple of people on mint forums mentioning they had to install an older 32bit nvidia driver, as their latest driver doesn't have a 32bit version (apparently).

It's been suggested to use

sudo apt-get install libnvidia-gl-390:i386

This sorted it for me with nvidia-430. Thanks for the tip.

[Ironwood Branch]

Thanks a lot! Im on different GPU(NVidia GeForce GTX 560 SE) and it helped me. Last time i installed linux i didnt need to do this, i dont know why this time its different, but i wrote this line you gave in my config file, in case i need to reinstall linux again(and i will, i havent decided what i want yet).

[fakeaddress2005]

Teotwawki that seemed to work for me, too. Thank you so much!

[Gameygamer7]

I have the both 64 and 32 bit installed but still same error

sudo aptitude search ~i | grep -i nvidia-gl
iB libnvidia-gl-440 - NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD
iB libnvidia-gl-440:i386 - NVIDIA OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES GLVND libraries and Vulkan ICD

Output is

Running Steam on ubuntu 18.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Can't find 'steam-runtime-check-requirements', continuing anyway
/home/username/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam
[2020-06-27 13:59:02] Startup - updater built Jun  4 2020 05:50:42
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)

[k_dampf]

I had the same problem. for whatever reason the MINT driver utitility offered the nvidia driver-BLÖB "nvidia-driver-440-server Version 440.95.01-0ubuntu0.18.04.1" as recommended. Which I selected foolishly.

Further down in the list is "nvidia-driver-440 Version 440.100-0ubuntu0.18.04.1". Do note the actually slightly higher version number and the lack of "-server". Selecting this version of the nvidia blob and rebooting solved the error message. Unsurprisngly a server version does not play well with Steam. ;-)

[Grechka]

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

Missing 32 bit libraries?

I've seen a couple of people on mint forums mentioning they had to install an older 32bit nvidia driver, as their latest driver doesn't have a 32bit version (apparently).

It's been suggested to use

sudo apt-get install libnvidia-gl-390:i386

many thanks! it help me!

[Alenhendro]

Originally posted by Teotwawki:

Missing 32 bit libraries?

I've seen a couple of people on mint forums mentioning they had to install an older 32bit nvidia driver, as their latest driver doesn't have a 32bit version (apparently).

It's been suggested to use

sudo apt-get install libnvidia-gl-390:i386

Worked for me too with nvidia-460. Thanks!

[bitterblackale]

I checked and noticed `glxgears` was indeed NOT working. I checked my drivers. I was using `nvidia-driver-460`
I thought, Okay, that should be fine, but lets try this...
I switched to `nvidia-driver-460-server`, clicked apply, did not even have to restart. glxgears worked. Steam does an update check and exits.

Will re-start and follow up with status

Running from terminal, I see the following output:

steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 20.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Steam client's requirements are satisfied
/home/anachronous/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam -nominidumps -nobreakpad
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Startup - updater built Feb 12 2021 23:21:33
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  GLXBadContext
SteamUpdateUI: An X Error occurred
X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
Value in failed request:  0x0
Serial number of failed request:  51
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Major opcode of failed request:  152 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request:  6 (X_GLXIsDirect)
Serial number of failed request:  52
xerror_handler: X failed, continuing
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/anachronous/.steam/debian-installation/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] 1. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] 2. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Checking for update on startup
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Checking for available updates...
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Downloading manifest: https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/client/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1613176728, installed version 1613176728, downloaded version 0
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Nothing to do
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Verifying installation...
[2021-02-24 13:07:39] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2021-02-24 13:07:40] Verification complete

[bitterblackale]

Following-up:
I also installed the i386 libs for my current driver with

sudo apt install libnvidia-gl-460:i386

Then restarted.
The proprietary drivers window now shows that I'm using a 'manually installed driver' and Steam now launches successfully!

[blybob]

yes maybe 465 is too new

[Chompman]

Try in the linux forum:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/

[[e-mail]]

I suddenly faced the same issue on openSUSE Leap 15.3 - after _some_ updates steam app started to crash at startup. I found it was exactly that 32x issue related to nvidia user space libs.

In my case installing of nvidia-computeG05-32bit, nvidia-glG05-32bit and x11-video-nvidiaG05-32bit solves the issue even without restart

However, I wonder - how it was working before? I used this installation with steam for more than a year without changes, I have never installed those 32 bit libs explicitly before, but everything was working perfectly until the last week.