Hey @DeeBeeDouble remember the Steam issue you helped me with some time ago? I just felt I’ll let you know 🙂
Here’s fun little update on this …
No relevant software was changed, but with the latest system update the Steam Flatpak runs all the udpates as it did before, but now this is logged (all the update and initial installation/setup stuff was done at this point):
<span style="color:#323232;">INFO:root:https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki
</span><span style="color:#323232;">INFO:root:Will set XDG dirs prefix to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam
</span><span style="color:#323232;">DEBUG:root:Checking input devices permissions
</span><span style="color:#323232;">WARNING:root:Missing permissions for input devices
</span><span style="color:#323232;">INFO:root:Overriding TZ to Europe/Berlin
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam.sh[2]: Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 23.08 64-bit
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam.sh[2]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
</span><span style="color:#323232;">setup.sh[74]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam.sh[2]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Startup - updater built Sep 11 2023 20:48:54
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Startup - Steam Client launched with: '/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam' '-no-cef-sandbox'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">09/22 21:54:27 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1694466342)/tid(137)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 1. https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com, /, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1000, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 2. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] 3. https://cdn.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 1, source = 'baked in'
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Verifying installation...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:54:27] Verification complete
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam logging initialized: directory: /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/logs
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">XRRGetOutputInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf044a8f0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">XRRGetCrtcInfo Workaround: initialized with override: 0 real: 0xf04491c0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[143]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[143]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[143]: CEF sandbox already disabled
</span><span style="color:#323232;">CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 35 milliseconds to initialize
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 222
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam-runtime-launcher-service[222]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 222 exited
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 250
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam-runtime-launcher-service[250]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 250 exited
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 259
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steam-runtime-launcher-service[259]: E: Unable to acquire bus name "com.steampowered.PressureVessel.LaunchAlongsideSteam"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 259 exited
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service keeps crashing on startup, disabling
</span><span style="color:#323232;">src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (543) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
</span><span style="color:#323232;">src/steamUI/steamuisharedjscontroller.cpp (543) : Failed creating offscreen shared JS context
</span><span style="color:#323232;">09/22 21:55:16 Init: Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1694466342)/tid(137)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">/tmp/dumps/assert_20230922215516_28.dmp
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: response: CrashID=bp-0f81ef33-d093-4fd1-b98c-8bd202230922
</span><span style="color:#323232;">assert_20230922215516_28.dmp[266]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20230922215516_28.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-0f81ef33-d093-4fd1-b98c-8bd202230922''
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[278]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/dirk/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[278]: Running under Flatpak, disabling sandbox
</span><span style="color:#323232;">steamwebhelper.sh[278]: CEF sandbox already disabled
</span>
During this log output this message pops up at some point:
But no matter what I select except Restart steamwebhelper the Flatpak quits and nothing more happens. When Restart steamwebhelper is selected sometimes the steam UI shows up but I cannot select anything from any dropdowns and cannot change most of the settings sliders. But most of the time this is logged and nothing happens:
<span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Background update loop checking for update. . .
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Checking for available updates...
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Downloading manifest: https://client-update.akamai.steamstatic.com/steam_client_ubuntu12?t=3700310497
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Manifest download: send request
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:53] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Manifest download: finished
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Download skipped: /steam_client_ubuntu12?t=3700310497 version 1694466342, installed version 1694466342, existing pending version 0
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[2023-09-22 21:56:54] Nothing to do
</span>
So we’re a bit further with this now. I now get an error message most of the time and occasionally can see the steam UI with partial access 🤣
So, who knows … maybe 2-3 more months and I can use Steam again like before …