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From: James Stevenson <james.al.stevenson@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2018 11:00:57
Message-Id: CAJPAcrMX_G+A9GG5RxNqpnH4tbo-ySM7+xL4+zhtRXvhy7CL6Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN by R0b0t1
1 I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32
2 libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the
3 library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam from
4 my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use but that's
5 my whole setup.
6
7 James
8
9 media-libs/mesa abi_x86_32
10 >=dev-libs/expat-2.2.5 abi_x86_32
11 >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.11-r1 abi_x86_32
12 >=x11-libs/libX11-1.6.5-r1 abi_x86_32
13 >=x11-libs/libxshmfence-1.3-r1 abi_x86_32
14 >=x11-libs/libXdamage-1.1.4-r2 abi_x86_32
15 >=x11-libs/libXext-1.3.3-r1 abi_x86_32
16 >=x11-libs/libxcb-1.13 abi_x86_32
17 >=x11-libs/libXfixes-5.0.3-r1 abi_x86_32
18 >=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.91 abi_x86_32
19 >=sys-devel/llvm-5.0.2 abi_x86_32
20 >=sys-libs/ncurses-6.1-r2 abi_x86_32
21 >=x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.14 abi_x86_32
22 >=dev-libs/libpthread-stubs-0.4 abi_x86_32
23 >=x11-libs/libXau-1.0.8-r1 abi_x86_32
24 >=x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.1.2-r2 abi_x86_32
25 >=x11-base/xcb-proto-1.13 abi_x86_32
26 >=virtual/libffi-3.0.13-r1 abi_x86_32
27 >=x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.4-r1 abi_x86_32
28 >=dev-libs/libffi-3.2.1 abi_x86_32
29
30
31 On Sun, Jul 29, 2018, 3:22 AM R0b0t1 <r030t1@×××××.com> wrote:
32
33 > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net> wrote:
34 > > A picture is beginning to emerge, after the reboot..
35 > >
36 > >
37 > > It did not give a usable error message so I had panicked and probably
38 > > cleaned more than I should have... 73% chance the underlying issue was a
39 > > graphics driver version bump that SHOULD have been clearly reported, but
40 > > wasn't, the remaining chance being something else that had become
41 > > incompatible while I was trying to update this junk. =\
42 > >
43 > > There was a library that I had to downgrade to version 1.8, from 2.x,
44 > > that cleared an error, so it tried to load,
45 > >
46 > >
47 > > Now it gets stuck eternally on "Connecting Steam Account: [...]"
48 > >
49 > > The logs are split among about 10^3 (rough estimate) different files,
50 > > all of which are extremely boring...
51 > >
52 >
53 > Can you not run Steam in a VM or container? Distributed binaries on
54 > Linux being pinned to old library versions has always been an issue.
55 > There was a period of time roughly 1.5yr ago where people were
56 > claiming Valve/Steam/developers had learned better (I attribute this
57 > instead to Ubuntu starting to maintain more recent libraries) but it
58 > seems like everything is broken again.
59 >
60 > It looks like the errors you posted are exactly this issue, and this
61 > is the one way to fix it forever. In my case I wouldn't trust Steam on
62 > my main system anyway and would have to run it in a VM.
63 >
64 > Cheers,
65 > R0b0t1
66 >
67 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@×××××××.net>