Steam - disk read error

Hello, i have the problem that whanever i try to install any game on steam i get a disk read error, i tried to install total war warhammer 2 and after it didnt worked i tried it with pathfinder kingmaker… always disk read error and when i press redo it downloads some crap again and veryfies it and afterwards the same error, there is also no files in the folder where the files should be…

i am pretty new to the whole system but its frustrating that the only games i got running on this system are warcraft 3 and heroes of might and magic 3…
please release me of my suffering

Hi @splox,

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When you reach here, congratulations!

In all the info requested, please also provide the output of:

journalctl --boot=-1 --grep="Steam"

This will search all logs for an occurence of thee word Steam. The --boot= parameter limits output to the messages from the previous boot (-1). Feel free to adjust this as necessary, -1 for the previous boot, -2 for the one before that, -3 for the one before that, and so on and so forth.

While I might not be the one to help you, this is required for assistance in general, not just me.

What happens if you try to manually create a file at that location?

Still a Disk read error if i did the install folder thing right…

journalctl --boot=-1 --grep="Steam"
Jan 21 15:04:48 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[892]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamLi>
Jan 21 15:04:50 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[892]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamLi>
Jan 21 15:04:54 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[892]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamLi>
Jan 21 15:04:54 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[892]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamLi>
Jan 21 15:05:04 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[892]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamLi>
Jan 21 15:05:08 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[892]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamLi>
Jan 21 15:05:13 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[892]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamLi>
Jan 21 15:05:19 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[892]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamLi>
Jan 21 15:06:13 painstation1 systemd[527]: Started Steam (Runtime).
Jan 21 15:06:14 painstation1 plasmashell[924]: steam.sh[924]: Running Steam on manjarolinux 22.0.0 64-bit
Jan 21 15:06:14 painstation1 plasmashell[998]: setup.sh[998]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
Jan 21 15:06:17 painstation1 plasmashell[924]: steam.sh[924]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[1061]: [2023-01-21 15:06:17] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '>
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[1061]: [2023-01-21 15:06:17] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home>
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[1061]: [2023-01-21 15:06:28] uninstalled manifest found in /home/daw>
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[1061]: [2023-01-21 15:07:02] Update complete, launching Steam...
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[924]: steam.sh[924]: Restarting Steam by request...
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[924]: steam.sh[924]: Running Steam on manjarolinux 22.0.0 64-bit
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[924]: steam.sh[924]: STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /hom>
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[1444]: setup.sh[1444]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
Jan 21 15:07:03 painstation1 plasmashell[924]: steam.sh[924]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
Jan 21 15:07:04 painstation1 plasmashell[1511]: steamwebhelper.sh[1511]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulti>
Jan 21 15:07:10 painstation1 plasmashell[1507]: Failed to init SteamVR because it isn't installed
Jan 21 15:07:10 painstation1 plasmashell[1507]: ExecCommandLine: "'/home/dawid/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32>
Jan 21 15:07:45 painstation1 plasmashell[1507]: ExecuteSteamURL: "steam://open/downloads"
Jan 21 15:08:04 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[1771]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamL>
Jan 21 15:08:04 painstation1 baloo_file_extractor[1771]: Invalid encoding. Ignoring "/home/dawid/Games/SteamL>
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inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width                                                    ✔ 
System:
  Kernel: 5.15.85-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=f79f43d2-f04a-4237-b8f6-6aa3102904b9 rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.26.4 tk: Qt v: 5.15.7 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Micro-Star product: GT680R/GX680R/GT683R v: N/A
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Micro-Star model: MS-16F2 serial: <superuser required>
    BIOS: American Megatrends v: E16F2IMS V3.0D date: 03/03/2011
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 32.2 Wh (96.7%) condition: 33.3/86.6 Wh (38.4%)
    volts: 12.4 min: 11.1 model: MS-16F2 type: Unknown serial: N/A status: N/A
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.74 GiB used: 2.89 GiB (37.3%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: model: Intel Core i5-2410M bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Sandy Bridge
    gen: core 2 level: v2 built: 2010-12 process: Intel 32nm family: 6
    model-id: 0x2A (42) stepping: 7 microcode: 0x2F
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 2 tpc: 2 threads: 4 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 128 KiB desc: d-2x32 KiB; i-2x32 KiB L2: 512 KiB desc: 2x256 KiB
    L3: 3 MiB desc: 1x3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1249 high: 1705 min/max: 800/2900 scaling:
    driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 1033 2: 991 3: 1705
    4: 1270 bogomips: 18366
  Flags: acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon avx bts clflush cmov
    constant_tsc cpuid cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept est
    flexpriority flush_l1d fpu fxsr ht ibpb ibrs ida lahf_lm lm mca mce
    md_clear mmx monitor msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid
    pclmulqdq pdcm pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdtscp rep_good
    sep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc
    tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xsave xsaveopt xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT
    vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Unknown: No mitigations
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: conditional, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GF106M [GeForce GT 555M] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: nvidia v: 390.157 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free:
    series: 390.xx+ status: legacy-active (EOL~late 2022) arch: Fermi
    code: GF1xx process: 40/28nm built: 2010-16 pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
    lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0dcd class-ID: 0300
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.6 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: N/A
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 143 s-size: 341x191mm (13.43x7.52")
    s-diag: 391mm (15.39")
  Monitor-1: LVDS-0 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
    size: 344x193mm (13.54x7.6") diag: 394mm (15.53") modes: N/A
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.157 renderer: GeForce GT 555M/PCIe/SSE2
    direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Micro-Star MSI driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
    chip-ID: 8086:1c20 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF106 High Definition Audio vendor: Micro-Star MSI
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16
    bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be9 class-ID: 0403
  Sound API: ALSA v: k5.15.85-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.63 running: yes

Do you have the right permissions on that folder?

ls -la <path_to_folder>

Ive got it somehow running when i changed the download directory from the default one to steam to some /home/games folder.
I thank you for your support and ideas.
Have a good day

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/home should not be writeable for normal users.
Are you talking about your users $HOME?

hmm, probably yes, its in the personal folders where i created a new folder for steam to download games.
Im still new to Linux as operating system so I still learn