Re: Steam was working an hour ago, now it will not load
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 14:18:33 -0000, Greg wrote:
> On 2025-03-11, George at Clug <Clug@goproject.info> wrote:
> > We do. About an hour ago, I was using steam to play a game and all was
> > working well. Then a member of the family reported that they were
> > unable to load Steam. We tested on another (third) computer, and as
> > Steam started, it checks for updates and then never loaded.
>
> I guess you're not alone.
>
> https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/11807
>
> Maybe you can roll back to a previous version until the dust settles.
>
> The Debian Steam wiki says you can try running Steam without its own
> RUNTIME (in the case the problem might lie with new libraries):
>
>
> STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
I just restarted Steam a couple minutes ago, and it worked for me.
I didn't need to do any workarounds. Just exited via the menu bar,
then re-ran "steam" from the terminal. A pending update was extracted,
and then the GUI launched normally.
I don't know if I just got lucky, or if there was a fix pushed out.
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