Just updated today and I am sorry to report that Steam isn’t working right. Doesn’t matter what version of Steam I’m running (native, LSI, etc.), all that seems to happen is it allocates ~17 MB of memory distributed unevenly across two processes and sits there with them.
I’ve tried force-stopping the processes and trying again, I’ve tried restarting and trying again, and nothing seems to be working, and I am really upset right now because a game I like is starting a tournament in less than 20 minutes and it’s looking like I’m not going to be able to participate so I’ll just . . . stop talking here.
What’s the output when you run steam from a terminal? You may see where it’s getting ‘stuck’.
steam.sh[40531]: Running Steam on manjarolinux 25.0.0 64-bit
steam.sh[40531]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[40586]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[40531]: Log already open
steam.sh[40531]: Using supervisor /home/taz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor
pv-verify[40622]: N: Verified "/home/taz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/sniper_platform_3.0.20250210.116596/files" against "/home/taz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/sniper_platform_3.0.20250210.116596/usr-mtree.txt.gz" successfully
pv-verify[40622]: N: Verified "/home/taz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper" against "/home/taz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/mtree.txt.gz" successfully
steam.sh[40531]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Startup - updater built Apr 28 2025 21:09:24
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/taz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-srt-logger-opened'
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
CProcessEnvironmentManager is ready, 6 preallocated environment variables.
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/taz/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] 1. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 900, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] 2. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] 3. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
05/03 13:01:09 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Checking for update on startup
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Checking for available updates...
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Manifest download: send request
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Process started with command-line: '/home/taz/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-child-update-ui' '-child-update-ui-socket' '8' '-srt-logger-opened'
05/03 13:01:09 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Using update UI: xwin
05/03 13:01:09 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)/tid(40696)
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Create window
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Manifest download: finished
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1745876290, installed version 1745876290, existing pending version 0
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Nothing to do
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Verifying installation...
[2025-05-03 13:01:09] Verifying all executable checksums
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
[2025-05-03 13:01:10] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/taz/.local/share/Steam/logs
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xedc07dc0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xedc06500
glx: failed to create dri3 screen
failed to load driver: nouveau
This is the part where it just sits there with ~17 MB of allocated memory. Thank you, I at least have stuff I can try now. Still upset about missing the tournament but there’s other stuff I wanted to play today as well.
ADD: yeah just grabbing the nouveau driver packages worked I guess. Thanks again.