unable to update apps

[spielerinchen]

since the last steam update the Manage Downloads doesn't work.
the notifications in red change between : No internet connection. Manifest unavailable. Time out.
so all apps don't get updated at all. not even demos. nothing gets an update.


any help would be appreciated.

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WARNING to any other players with similar issue ! ! !

DO NOT REINSTALL STEAM ! ! !

you won't be able to even play your old games in offline mode,
you won't be able to access your steam account if you do ! ! !

[Iceira]

Dont be in steam BETA btw, if you are

[spielerinchen]

Iceira の投稿を引用：

unplug controller just in case No game pad usb attached, dont even ask, more a test if it is that then restart steam. ( no more ideas atm. )

unless you want to try steam flush cmd ( google it )

controller is unplugged

[spielerinchen]

just to deliver all informations

after i installed steam in safe mode
i clicked, still in safe mode, on the icon
nothing happened

is this normal ?

[solomonic]

Well at least I'm also in Germany. But I guess there would be a greater outcry if masses of germans couldn't access Steam anymore.

[spielerinchen]

yeah, if there were masses with that issue, i had a higher chance to get it solved. :/

[solomonic]

Good luck and don't get bogged down in the rabbit holes of un- and reinstalling and whatever else people suggest.
Some of my issues have resolved themselves now just by letting steam and my pc idle for more than an hour. It finally started to connect and update stuff.

[spielerinchen]

the funny thing is,
i can play the games i have on my steam account through the GOG option
just not through steam directly, lol

[solomonic]

The biggest scare for me was not getting Gloomhaven to start for my weekly session with friends and that sadly didn't work through GoG. But maybe seeing GoG Galaxy downloading updates shamed Steam into doing the same after all.

[how bout i do anyway]

I would try running Linux from a flash drive and installing Steam in Linux to see if the issue still occurs. If it does, then there is something in your Windows installation interfering and you might have to reinstall Windows.

[spielerinchen]

it's still the question, why all of sudden related to the steam client ? especially because i didn't have any windows update between when it worked & then didn't.

[spielerinchen]

newest update.

the main issue still remains unsolved. i am still not able to update any app through Manage Downloads.

in the meantime ... Steam Help was completely unhelpful. though not really a surprise there.

my local help was also not really helpful, wanted to just deinstall steam & install new ... without securing anything. well, i managed to do it then on my own. deinstalled steam through the windows app manager. installed then new. result is, i was at least able to update the steam client but the apps remain not updateable. i am back to the state before i reinstalled steam, so able to play the games in offline mode.

my next weak hope was on Reset Winsock. didn't help either.

steam client remains saying i am offline.
so currently forced to stay off steam.

No New Games for me through Steam, lol ...

[how bout i do anyway]

Are you able to use a bootable USB flash drive to boot into Linux and run Steam there? If you can log into Steam on Linux, then you most likely have some kind of issue with your Windows installation. If you can't log into Steam on Linux, then you most likely have some kind of hardware issue.

[spielerinchen]

i have zero knowledge with Linux.
the PC is fairly new, everything is 2 years old, only the graphics card is older.
that error doesn't make any sense. it happened out of the blue without that i could even guess what the cause could be. other than the private games steam update that is.
as i asked above
what could be the reason why windows all of sudden (there was not even a windows update before the error started) should have problems with the steam client ?
that error just doesn't make any sense.

[how bout i do anyway]

There's lots of things that can cause changes in Windows outside of a Windows update.
You do not need specialized Linux knowledge to test this with Linux. All you need to do is create a bootable Linux flash drive (there are many guides online for this) and then boot using it, and once you are in Linux, open the browser and go to the Steam website, click the download button and install it as you normally would. You will either be able to connect to Steam, in which case the issue is software related, or you will not, in which case the issue is hardware related (or possibly your network is blocking your specific machine from accessing Steam, which is unlikely but not impossible.)

[spielerinchen]

UPDATE

i had to wipe my entire Windows out & install totally fresh io for Steam finally to function as it should



a Linux test was made, it was a software, not a hardware problem, Steam was operational under Linux

a simple reinstallation of Windows 10 with all my set up didn't yield any improvement