Steam not even opening

[computer-conservative]

Your system information

• Steam client version (build number or date): Mon, Aug 28 2:00 PM UTC +00:00
• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch
• Opted into Steam client beta?: [Yes/No] Yes
• Have you checked for system updates?: [Yes/No] YEs
• GPU: Nvidia

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Alright, everything WAS fine until recently. I did a fresh Arch reinstall and of course I now have up to date drivers and everything. However, for some reason its not even opening. I looked up the issue on the arch wiki, where it said I have to run steam --vgui, i tried it. it didn't work. i tried deleting ~/.config/nvidia/GLCache, that also didn't fix my issue. I have no idea what to do at this point.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @computer-conservative, can you check if any 32 bit OpenGL application like glxinfo32 -B from lib32-mesa-utils works?

Blind guess that you're using the NVIDIA proprietary driver, but didn't reinstall lib32-nvidia-utils to install the video driver's 32 bit userspace libraries, leading to #9752.

[computer-conservative]

Hello @computer-conservative, can you check if any 32 bit OpenGL application like glxinfo32 -B from lib32-mesa-utils works?

Blind guess that you're using the NVIDIA proprietary driver, but didn't reinstall lib32-nvidia-utils to install the video driver's 32 bit userspace libraries, leading to #9752.

accidentally closed the issue apolgoies, so - yes 32bit opengl applications do run on my system perfectly, i will try https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/9752#issuecomment-1668886195 though

[maluhia]

Try seeing if you are actually running nvidia drivers using

glxinfo | grep renderer

although the nvidia kernel driver was in use, my renderer was still llvmpipe as I had forgotten to pass the DRM kernel parameter during boot via EFISTUB in the UEFI BIOS. rookie mistake! Now steam works again.