Steam games won't launch after 2024-10-10 stable update

Hi all

Some info from my side - don’t know if it helps

Updated a few hours ago (about 14:00 CEST), didn’t check, just rebooted and then about three hours later I tried to game (which didn’t work).

My games don’t launch - the steam info is always “lauching” and nothing happens.
I can’t exit steam - “exit steam” seems to do nothing anymore. There are still tons of steam processes going on. I have to kill them with via pid.

I have steam from the official repository (multilib) and I am on 6.6.54 (Linux hostname 6.6.54-2-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Tue Oct 8 03:11:08 UTC 2024 x86_64 GNU/Linux).
Mesa should be on 24.2.4-0.

journalclt -e

Actually no info about steam or game lauching - maybe I doing something wrong.

starting steam from the CLI

[hostname ~]$ steam
steam.sh[5224]: Running Steam on manjarolinux 24.1.1 64-bit
steam.sh[5224]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[5293]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[5224]: Steam client’s requirements are satisfied
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] Startup - updater built Sep 17 2024 20:02:19
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] Startup - Steam Client launched with: ‘/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam’ ‘-srt-logger-opened’
10/10 18:08:19 minidumps folder is set to /tmp/dumps
10/10 18:08:19 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1726604483)/tid(5360)
Looks like steam didn’t shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 500, source = ‘update_hosts_cached.vdf’
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] 2. https://client-update.fastly.steamstatic.com, /, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 500, source = ‘update_hosts_cached.vdf’
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] 3. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 1, source = ‘update_hosts_cached.vdf’
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] 4. https://client-update.steamstatic.com, /, Realm ‘steamglobal’, weight was 1, source = ‘baked in’
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] Checking for update on startup
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] Checking for available updates…
[2024-10-10 18:08:19] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2024-10-10 18:08:20] Manifest download: send request
[2024-10-10 18:08:20] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2024-10-10 18:08:20] Manifest download: finished
[2024-10-10 18:08:20] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1726604483, installed version 1726604483, existing pending version 0
[2024-10-10 18:08:20] Nothing to do
[2024-10-10 18:08:20] Verifying installation…
[2024-10-10 18:08:20] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2024-10-10 18:08:20] Verification complete
UpdateUI: skip show logo
Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/logs

/usr/share/themes/Matcha-aliz/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1113: error: unexpected identifier ‘direction’, expected character ‘}’
/usr/share/themes/Matcha-aliz/gtk-2.0/apps.rc:91: error: unexpected identifier ‘direction’, expected character ‘}’
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xe8069dc0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xe8068500
steamwebhelper.sh[5395]: Using supervisor /home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/usr/bin/steam-runtime-supervisor
steamwebhelper.sh[5395]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap sniper steam runtime via /home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper.sh
steamwebhelper.sh[5395]: Using CEF sandbox (try with -no-cef-sandbox if this fails)
steamwebhelper.sh[5395]: Starting steamwebhelper with Sniper steam runtime at /home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-sniper/_v2-entry-point
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 5498
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam
exec ./steamwebhelper -lang=en_US -cachedir=/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/config/htmlcache -steampid=5360 -buildid=1726604483 -steamid=0 -logdir=/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/logs -uimode=7 -startcount=0 -userdatadir=/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/config/cefdata -steamuniverse=Public -realm=Global -clientui=/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/clientui -steampath=/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam -launcher=0 -no-restart-on-ui-mode-change --valve-initial-threadpool-size=8 --valve-enable-site-isolation --enable-smooth-scrolling --password-store=basic --log-file=/home/stefan/.local/share/Steam/logs/cef_log.txt --disable-quick-menu --enable-features=PlatformHEVCDecoderSupport --disable-features=SpareRendererForSitePerProcess,DcheckIsFatal
BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 147ms
Desktop state changed: desktop: { pos: 0, 0 size: 5120,1440 } primary: { pos: 0, 0 size: 2560,1440 }
BuildCompleteAppOverviewChange: 1146 apps
RegisterForAppOverview 1: 5ms
RegisterForAppOverview 2: 6ms

when Ctrl-C

^CSteam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 5498 exited
Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 6152
bus_name=com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam

and its stuck there

vulkaninfo

[hostname ~]$ vulkaninfo
ERROR: [Loader Message] Code 0 : loader_scanned_icd_add: Could not get ‘vkCreateInstance’ via ‘vk_icdGetInstanceProcAddr’ for ICD libGLX_nvidia.so.0

VULKANINFO

Vulkan Instance Version: 1.3.295

Device Properties and Extensions:

GPU0:
VkPhysicalDeviceProperties:

apiVersion        = 1.3.289 (4206881)
driverVersion     = 24.2.4 (100671492)
vendorID          = 0x1002
deviceID          = 0x73bf
deviceType        = PHYSICAL_DEVICE_TYPE_DISCRETE_GPU
deviceName        = AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT (RADV NAVI21)
pipelineCacheUUID = c8a400de-d59c-5c80-375c-1c099db8a437

VkPhysicalDeviceDriverProperties:

driverID        = DRIVER_ID_MESA_RADV
driverName      = radv
driverInfo      = Mesa 24.2.4-arch1.0
conformanceVersion:
	major    = 1
	minor    = 3
	subminor = 0
	patch    = 0