Ubuntu Steam wont launch

[Alpha-404]

Your system information

• Latest as of 18 august 2021
• Ubuntu 21.04 x86_64
• Opted into Steam client beta?: No
• Have you checked for system updates?: Yes

Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:

Describe what you expected should happen and what did happen. Please link any large code pastes as a Github Gist

I installed steam using all possible methods i know and none worked (snap, apt, steam website). I expected steam to show the login screen for me to login and continue to play games. What happens is steam downloads and never opens again. I launch steam with the terminal and this is the output

Running Steam on ubuntu 21.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
Steam client's requirements are satisfied
WARNING: Using default/fallback debugger launch
/home/rajaa/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam

No ui opens nothing.

Steps for reproducing this issue:

1. Download ubuntu 21.04 X64
2. Download steam with sudo and snap and the website
3. Launch steam and it probably wont launch

[kisak-valve]

Hello @Alpha-404, what video driver are you using? We've seen this scenario before where an nVidia proprietary driver user recently updated their video driver, which caused the nVidia kernel module loaded into memory to not have the exact same version as the userspace libraries on disk. As a result, all OpenGL applications could hang on start waiting on the video driver. If that's the scenario you're seeing, then the easiest solution would be to restart the system.

[Alpha-404]

I forgot to mention it fixed itself randomly later

On Wed, 18 Aug 2021, 17:25 kisak-valve, @.***> wrote:

Hello @Alpha-404 https://github.com/Alpha-404, what video driver are you using? We've seen this scenario before where an nVidia proprietary driver user recently updated their video driver, which caused the nVidia kernel module loaded into memory to not have the exact same version as the userspace libraries on disk. As a result, all OpenGL applications could hang on start waiting on the video driver. If that's the scenario you're seeing, then the easiest solution would be to restart the system.

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[udev]

Having the same issue on AMD hardware. Everything works fine on a fresh login but if I close Steam and try to open it again I get the exact same error until the next login. Steam and Proton work fine otherwise. Just the launcher seems to be busted.

Updated packages yesterday before this problem started happening so who knows.

[hoanghadu]

I met the same problem. It is fixed when I upgrade NVIDIA driver to the newest version (470.63.01)

[Rovanion]

Rebooting the machine fixed the issue for me. On Ubuntu 20.04 x86_64 with Nvidia 470. Unattended upgrade ran in the background after I had started the machine so @kisak-valve's explanation fits nicely.

[udev]

I'm not seeing this issue anymore after a few system updates. On occasion I still have to use System Monitor to kill the steam process when a game process is hung or crashes but I'm able to restart Steam after that.