Re: [gentoo-user] correction: steam stalls

[Mick]

On Monday, 23 July 2018 21:19:30 BST Alan Grimes wrote:
> I had made a error when reporting my problem launching steam, I had a
> stalled steam launch that was causing the other launch to simply abort,
> steam does stall on load.
>
> I deleted my entire crufty old steam directory and am trying to run this
> virgin...
>
> #########################
>
> atg@tortoise ~ $ steam
> which: no gnome-terminal in
> (/usr/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/7.3.0:/usr/lib/llvm/6/bin:/usr/lib/llvm/5/
> bin:/usr/lib/llvm/4/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/s
> bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/opt/nvidia-cg-toolkit/bin:/usr/lib64/subversion/bin:/usr/
> games/bin:/opt/cuda/bin) Package curl needs to be installed
> Package python-apt needs to be installed
> Package xterm needs to be installed
> Package xz-utils needs to be installed
> Package zenity needs to be installed
> Package libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 needs to be installed
> Package libgl1-mesa-glx:i386 needs to be installed
> Package libc6:i386 needs to be installed
> Running Steam on gentoo 1.0.0.54-r4 64-bit
> STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled by the user
> Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1532132960)
> [Halts dead here... ]
>
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The above mentions a number of packages which it thinks ought to be installed.  
Are yours missing, or you have no way of letting steam know about their 
whereabouts?

I don't use steam and don't know if the above causes your problem, but I would 
start from there if I were you.
-- 
Regards,
Mick