Closed spikethefolf closed 7 months ago
what are the logs after what you have posted? steam has not exited here. it is still running
also since you have low ram Ram size: 3.79 GB
I would install the pi-apps "More Ram" app which enables zram. You may not be running out of ram yet but you certainly will when running anything from steam itself.
I waited on the terminal for like 2 minutes and now this is added to the bottom to the rest of the terminal output i posted before:
[2023-11-26 08:01:23] Background update loop checking for update. . .
[2023-11-26 08:01:23] Checking for available updates...
[2023-11-26 08:01:23] Downloading manifest: https://cdn.steamstatic.com/client/steam_client_ubuntu12?t=3929563344
[2023-11-26 08:01:23] Manifest download: send request
[2023-11-26 08:01:23] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2023-11-26 08:01:24] Manifest download: finished
[2023-11-26 08:01:24] Download skipped by HTTP 304 Not Modified
[2023-11-26 08:01:24] Nothing to do
I requested that you attempt to install the "More RAM" application since you have a low amount of ram and reboot then attempt to run steam again. Steam appears to be running according to your terminal logs.
See discussion -> https://github.com/ptitSeb/box64/issues/1177
Appears to be a PiOS specific issue (unknown what part of the stack has an issue)
The terminal output in the original post on this issue matches what I got in testing yesterday. This has now been fixed with the addition of the `libibus-1.0-5 dependency. Steam should now work with commit https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps/commit/a9fdf6a4b32fa425296b85c15d1ab67ca35473d4.
Sorry this took so long to sort out. Many distros install libibus by default, and on my system it had already been installed as part of other programs, so I could never reproduce this steam launch failure.
@spikethefolf, Steam will work now. Just let pi-apps update and then install Steam, and it should work now.
Confirmations
What happened?
Steam keeps crashing
Description
When I try to launch steam from the desktop nothing comes up on the screen. and when I try to launch it with the command:
/usr/local/bin/steam
orsteam
. It shows Updating Steam, and then seems to crash.What are your system specs (run the following command in your terminal)?
(Recommended) Error log? Terminal output? Debug messages?