Steam doesn't start

[ChildishGiant]

Steam was working just fine and I restarted it and now it's not working. When ran from terminal it just says this then closes.

[als@fedora ~]$ flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam 
INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki
INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/als/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam
DEBUG:root:Checking input devices permissions
WARNING:root:Missing permissions for input devices
INFO:root:Overriding TZ to Europe/London
steam.sh[2]: Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 22.08 64-bit
steam.sh[2]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[77]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

[danigtrz]

I also started having this issue after trying to run steam with different environment variables.

EDIT: It turns out that steam was already open and I hadn't realized.

[lufia]

What would you see if launch steam client with either -bigpicture or -gamepadui option?

Now, I have same problem but I could launch steam client:

• In case of with -bigpicture option, I can launch it always
• In case of with -gamepadui option, I can launch it sometimes

After rm -rf ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam, I can launch it once but it cannot launch without above options after updating the client.

[LoneFenris]

What would you see if launch steam client with either -bigpicture or -gamepadui option?

Now, I have same problem but I could launch steam client:

* In case of with `-bigpicture` option, I can launch it always

* In case of with `-gamepadui` option, I can launch it sometimes

After rm -rf ~/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam, I can launch it once but it cannot launch without above options after updating the client.

I'm seeing this behavior as well. Did not notice it until I got back from vacation.

[ChildishGiant]

For me the issue fixed itself after a bit so I can't help with logs etc