Steam not launching new Manjaro install

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Hey all! Again I’m still pretty new to Linux so if there’s any logs that I can provide I’ll be happy to provide them but not sure what logs are needed or where to start looking for logs regarding this. Happy to learn!

 ██████████████████  ████████     jorogumo4@leo-x470aorusultragaming
 ██████████████████  ████████     OS: Manjaro 23.0.0 UltimaThule
 ██████████████████  ████████     Kernel: x86_64 Linux 6.1.31-2-MANJARO
 ██████████████████  ████████     Uptime: 7m
 ████████            ████████     Packages: 1173
 ████████  ████████  ████████     Shell: bash 5.1.16
 ████████  ████████  ████████     Resolution: 7680x1440
 ████████  ████████  ████████     DE: Xfce4
 ████████  ████████  ████████     WM: Xfwm4
 ████████  ████████  ████████     WM Theme: Matcha-sea
 ████████  ████████  ████████     GTK Theme: Matcha-dark-sea [GTK2]
 ████████  ████████  ████████     Icon Theme: Papirus-Maia
 ████████  ████████  ████████     Font: Noto Sans 10
 ████████  ████████  ████████     Disk: 13G / 962G (2%)
                                  CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 16x 3.7GHz
                                  GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT (gfx1100, LLVM 15.0.7, DRM 3.49, 6.1.31-2-MANJARO)
                                  RAM: 2875MiB / 48124MiB

So the issue I’m having is. I’ve just made a fresh install of Manjaro XFCE, absolutely loving it so far but I’ve ran into two issues, but I’ll start this post with just one of them. I’ve installed steam via pacman, and my pacman is up-to-date. However when I try to launch steam, I see it pop up and update, then I see it pop up in my task manager, but nothing happens. It eventually goes away after about 2-3 minutes from the task manager, but steam never pops up.

Any ideas? Again if there are some logs I can give I kindly ask for help finding those logs :slight_smile:

Thanks in advance!

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What happens when you just launch steam in the terminal?
The output could show us some of the errors.

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Seems to just stop right here;

[jorogumo4@leo-x470aorusultragaming ~]$ steam
steam.sh[18343]: Running Steam on manjarolinux 23.0.0 64-bit
steam.sh[18343]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[18417]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[18343]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Startup - updater built Jun 21 2023 21:17:38
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/jorogumo4/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'
07/01 22:52:26 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1687386907)/tid(18474)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/jorogumo4/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] 3. http://media.steampowered.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Checking for update on startup
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Checking for available updates...
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Manifest download: send request
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Manifest download: finished
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1687386907, installed version 1687386907, existing pending version 0
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Nothing to do
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Verifying installation...
[2023-07-01 22:52:26] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2023-07-01 22:52:27] Verification complete

(process:18474): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 22:52:27.497: g_object_ref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(process:18474): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 22:52:27.497: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xec5e0db0
XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xec5df500
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
Loaded SDL version 3.0.0-1782-g214d5daa3

(steam:18474): Gtk-WARNING **: 22:52:53.250: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Matcha-dark-sea/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1113: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
/usr/share/themes/Matcha-dark-sea/gtk-2.0/apps.rc:91: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
GetWin32Stats: display was not open yet, good
steamwebhelper.sh[18514]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/jorogumo4/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[18514]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 77 milliseconds to initialize
Local Device Found
  type: 2341 8036
  path: sdl://1
  serial_number:  - 0
  Manufacturer: 
  Product:      LLC Arduino Leonardo
  Release:      101
  Interface:    -1

src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (529) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (529) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (529) : Fatal assert; application exiting
src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (529) : Fatal assert; application exiting
07/01 22:53:18 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1687386907)/tid(18474)
assert_20230701225318_30.dmp[18664]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20230701225318_30.dmp
_ExitOnFatalAssert
[jorogumo4@leo-x470aorusultragaming ~]$ assert_20230701225318_30.dmp[18664]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20230701225318_30.dmp[18664]: response: CrashID=bp-a5ab9208-f8b8-441e-bf2a-b357c2230701
assert_20230701225318_30.dmp[18664]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230701225318_30.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-a5ab9208-f8b8-441e-bf2a-b357c2230701''
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I believe this may be my solution, trying now though not sure how to remove what’s mentioned in the solution. Steam opening then immediately closing

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Having followed the solutions link to this post: Steam client crashes with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome installed · Issue #9588 · ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux · GitHub

Running sudo pacman -R xdg-desktop-portal-gnome has resolved my issue! Steam launches fine now. Looks like the issue is having two separate xdg-desktop-portal-...'s

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known to be buggy, especially on non-gnome DE’s.
(which shouldnt have it installed anyways)
You may not have noticed … but having that installed would also be causing other problems - like extremely slow firefox start. Its been noted in many threads and release announcements by now.
In your case, being on XFCE (a gtk desktop) you should have portal-gtk as your backend.

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I did indeed notice that! However i moved over to Brave anyways. I did notice extremely long load times for telegram as well. So glad to see removing that has resolved a multitude of issues.

Thank you for your time, assistance, and information :slight_smile: I greatly appreciate it.

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