Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Davyd McColl




On July 29, 2018 19:43:06 Alan Grimes  wrote:


Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote:

On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:

James Stevenson wrote:

I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32
libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the
library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam
from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use
but that's my whole setup.

I had been operating under the assumption that my windows machine was
the unstable platform and was preferentially selecting games that I
could run on Linux

Why would you assume that WIndows is the unstable one when every game is
built with Windows as the first class citizen? Even if you are changing
it every day it should be way better than running in Linux.


I believed the lies about open source and linux etc, even despite my
lived experience... Mostly because I hate Micro$oft to death...

=\


IMO, that's a rather myopic reason to select an operating system. An OS, 
like any other piece of software, is a tool for a task. You select the 
one(s) which allow you to accomplish what you want to on the hardware you have.




What in god's name are the linux ppl trying to build here?!?!?!

It's certainly not a stable, usable, and reliable operating system...



Funny you should say that. A Linux machine has been my primary personal 
desktop for around 18 years now. Most of that has been on Debian or some 
derivative, but part of what I want from the tool at hand is that it does 
what I want - so I had the freedom to switch to Gentoo and ditch PulseAudio 
and systemd, the two flies in my otherwise functional ointment. I've only 
been here for a little over a year, but I'm incredibly grateful for the 
hard work and the helpful people. Perhaps you should look up that word: 
gratitude. Remember that all of this costs you nothing and costs others one 
of the only two resources we genuinely have (time, the other being our 
physical being) for which they recieve no extrinsic reward. And perhaps you 
should exercise your freedom to select another operating system.


And I'm running KDE and steam without issue, ignoring nvidia driver bugs 
wrt Vulkan, affecting exactly one game I have. But I'm not here to bore you 
all with my thoughts on nvidia and their non-alliance with the Linux community.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:04:41 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > What in god's name are the linux ppl trying to build here?!?!?!
> > 
> > It's certainly not a stable, usable, and reliable operating
> > system...  

It's also not compulsory.
 
> My systems are just so.
> 
> But I don't run ~arch ...  ;-)

I do, without these problems. But then i don't run horrible update
scripts that everyone has said are likely to result in breakage, just so
I can rant about the breakage.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Mick
On Sunday, 29 July 2018 18:42:18 BST Alan Grimes wrote:
> Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote:
> > On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:
> >> James Stevenson wrote:
> >>> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32
> >>> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the
> >>> library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam
> >>> from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use
> >>> but that's my whole setup.
> >> 
> >> I had been operating under the assumption that my windows machine was
> >> the unstable platform and was preferentially selecting games that I
> >> could run on Linux
> > 
> > Why would you assume that WIndows is the unstable one when every game is
> > built with Windows as the first class citizen? Even if you are changing
> > it every day it should be way better than running in Linux.
> 
> I believed the lies about open source and linux etc, even despite my
> lived experience... Mostly because I hate Micro$oft to death...
> 
> =\
> 
> What in god's name are the linux ppl trying to build here?!?!?!
> 
> It's certainly not a stable, usable, and reliable operating system...

My systems are just so.

But I don't run ~arch ...  ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
Daniel Salas Rodriguez wrote:
> On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:
>> James Stevenson wrote:
>>> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32
>>> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the
>>> library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam
>>> from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use
>>> but that's my whole setup.
>> I had been operating under the assumption that my windows machine was
>> the unstable platform and was preferentially selecting games that I
>> could run on Linux
> Why would you assume that WIndows is the unstable one when every game is
> built with Windows as the first class citizen? Even if you are changing
> it every day it should be way better than running in Linux.

I believed the lies about open source and linux etc, even despite my
lived experience... Mostly because I hate Micro$oft to death...

=\

What in god's name are the linux ppl trying to build here?!?!?!

It's certainly not a stable, usable, and reliable operating system...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 12:34:10 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:

> And for the love of god, can someone PLEASE fix libcdio!!

> ../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/utf8.c:350:3: error: #error "The iconv
> library is needed to build drivers, but it is not detected"
>  # error "The iconv library is needed to build drivers, but it is not
> detected"
>    ^

Perhaps if you were to file a bug report about the missing dependency
instead of spewing vitriol in the *users* mailing list, you may get your
wish. And we may get some respite from your tantrums.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 12:42 PM Daniel Salas Rodriguez
 wrote:
> Seems your iconv library is broken or just not there. Have you tried
> re-emerging it and then retrying?
>
> # emerge -v1 libiconv

On Linux, iconv is built into glibc. libiconv is only necessary if you
are using a different C library or different OS (like FreeBSD).

I assume Alan has done something weird that broke glibc in some funny
way. However, I would not bother trying to help him given his horrible
attitude.



Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Daniel Salas Rodriguez


On 07/29/2018 09:34 AM, Alan Grimes wrote:
> James Stevenson wrote:
>> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32
>> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the
>> library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam
>> from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use
>> but that's my whole setup.
> I had been operating under the assumption that my windows machine was
> the unstable platform and was preferentially selecting games that I
> could run on Linux
Why would you assume that WIndows is the unstable one when every game is
built with Windows as the first class citizen? Even if you are changing
it every day it should be way better than running in Linux.
> atg@tortoise ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common $ ls -l
> total 168
> drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Jul  5 15:47 'Castle Story'
> drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Jul  9 00:56  Cities_Skylines
> drwxrwxrwx  3 atg atg 4096 Jun 20  2017  ConSim2015
> drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Jun 20  2017 'Counter-Strike Source'
> drwxrwxrwx  5 atg atg 4096 Dec 25  2015  Cradle
> drwxrwxrwx  4 atg atg 4096 May 29 22:14 'Creeper World 3'
> drwxrwxrwx 22 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12 'Crusader Kings II'
> drwxrwxrwx  9 atg atg 4096 Jan 31  2017 'Democracy 3'
> drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jul 21 10:37 'dota 2 beta'
> drwxrwxrwx  5 atg atg 4096 Jul 12 00:14 'Euro Truck Simulator 2'
> drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12  Factorio
> drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12  FEZ
> drwxrwxrwx  3 atg atg 4096 Dec 29  2017 'Full Throttle Remastered'
> drwxrwxrwx  9 atg atg 4096 May 29 11:14  GarrysMod
> drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Apr 21  2014  GarrysModDS
> drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Sep  8  2016 'Human Resource Machine'
> drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Sep 30  2016  KentuckyRouteZero
> drwxrwxrwx 20 atg atg 4096 Jul 28 21:07 'Kerbal Space Program'
> drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Oct 26  2015  LongLiveTheQueen
> drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Nov  4  2016 'Master of Orion 1'
> drwxrwxrwx  9 atg atg 4096 Nov  1  2016 'Master of Orion 2'
> drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Feb 16  2013  Osmos
> drwxrwxrwx 16 atg atg 4096 Jul  2 22:23 'Planet Explorers'
> drwxrwxrwx  3 atg atg 4096 Dec  6  2017 'Poly Bridge'
> drwxrwxrwx 10 atg atg 4096 Jul 17 12:19  Portal
> drwxrwxrwx 11 atg atg 4096 Jul  9 00:55 'Portal 2'
> drwxrwxrwx  3 atg atg 4096 Jun 29 21:22  Revhead
> drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12 'Rise of the Tomb Raider'
> drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Jul 20 20:07  ShadowOfMordor
> drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jun 24 14:56 'SHENZHEN IO'
> drwxrwxrwx  4 atg atg 4096 Jul  3 12:47 "Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond
> Earth"
> drwxrwxrwx  5 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12 "Sid Meier's Civilization V"
> drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Oct  4  2013 'Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer'
> drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Aug 10  2014 'Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer'
> drwxrwxrwx  5 atg atg 4096 Oct  3  2014  SteamVR
> drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Oct 24  2016 'Team Fortress 2'
> drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jul  9 00:56 'The Talos Principle'
> drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Jul  9 00:56 'the witcher 2'
> drwxrwxrwx  4 atg atg 4096 Jun 26 13:26  TIS-100
> drwxrwxrwx  4 atg atg 4096 Jul 21 06:52 'Universe Sandbox 2'
> atg@tortoise ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common $
>
>
> And for the love of god, can someone PLEASE fix libcdio!!
>
>
> /bin/sh ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
> -m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../.. 
> -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../../include
> -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/include/   -march=native -pipe -O3   -Wall
> -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wendif-labels
> -Winline -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs
> -Wno-sign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef
> -Wunused -Wwrite-strings -c -o FreeBSD/freebsd_cam.lo
> ../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/FreeBSD/freebsd_cam.c
> libtool: compile:  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../..
> -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../../include
> -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/include/ -march=native -pipe -O3 -Wall
> -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wendif-labels
> -Winline -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs
> -Wno-sign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef
> -Wunused -Wwrite-strings -c ../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/util.c 
> -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/util.o
> libtool: compile:  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../..
> -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../../include
> -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/include/ -march=native -pipe -O3 -Wall
> -Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wendif-labels
> 

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread Alan Grimes
James Stevenson wrote:
> I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32
> libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the
> library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam
> from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use
> but that's my whole setup.

I had been operating under the assumption that my windows machine was
the unstable platform and was preferentially selecting games that I
could run on Linux

atg@tortoise ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common $ ls -l
total 168
drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Jul  5 15:47 'Castle Story'
drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Jul  9 00:56  Cities_Skylines
drwxrwxrwx  3 atg atg 4096 Jun 20  2017  ConSim2015
drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Jun 20  2017 'Counter-Strike Source'
drwxrwxrwx  5 atg atg 4096 Dec 25  2015  Cradle
drwxrwxrwx  4 atg atg 4096 May 29 22:14 'Creeper World 3'
drwxrwxrwx 22 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12 'Crusader Kings II'
drwxrwxrwx  9 atg atg 4096 Jan 31  2017 'Democracy 3'
drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jul 21 10:37 'dota 2 beta'
drwxrwxrwx  5 atg atg 4096 Jul 12 00:14 'Euro Truck Simulator 2'
drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12  Factorio
drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12  FEZ
drwxrwxrwx  3 atg atg 4096 Dec 29  2017 'Full Throttle Remastered'
drwxrwxrwx  9 atg atg 4096 May 29 11:14  GarrysMod
drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Apr 21  2014  GarrysModDS
drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Sep  8  2016 'Human Resource Machine'
drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Sep 30  2016  KentuckyRouteZero
drwxrwxrwx 20 atg atg 4096 Jul 28 21:07 'Kerbal Space Program'
drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Oct 26  2015  LongLiveTheQueen
drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Nov  4  2016 'Master of Orion 1'
drwxrwxrwx  9 atg atg 4096 Nov  1  2016 'Master of Orion 2'
drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Feb 16  2013  Osmos
drwxrwxrwx 16 atg atg 4096 Jul  2 22:23 'Planet Explorers'
drwxrwxrwx  3 atg atg 4096 Dec  6  2017 'Poly Bridge'
drwxrwxrwx 10 atg atg 4096 Jul 17 12:19  Portal
drwxrwxrwx 11 atg atg 4096 Jul  9 00:55 'Portal 2'
drwxrwxrwx  3 atg atg 4096 Jun 29 21:22  Revhead
drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12 'Rise of the Tomb Raider'
drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Jul 20 20:07  ShadowOfMordor
drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jun 24 14:56 'SHENZHEN IO'
drwxrwxrwx  4 atg atg 4096 Jul  3 12:47 "Sid Meier's Civilization Beyond
Earth"
drwxrwxrwx  5 atg atg 4096 Jul 19 23:12 "Sid Meier's Civilization V"
drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Oct  4  2013 'Source SDK Base 2013 Multiplayer'
drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Aug 10  2014 'Source SDK Base 2013 Singleplayer'
drwxrwxrwx  5 atg atg 4096 Oct  3  2014  SteamVR
drwxrwxrwx  8 atg atg 4096 Oct 24  2016 'Team Fortress 2'
drwxrwxrwx  7 atg atg 4096 Jul  9 00:56 'The Talos Principle'
drwxrwxrwx  6 atg atg 4096 Jul  9 00:56 'the witcher 2'
drwxrwxrwx  4 atg atg 4096 Jun 26 13:26  TIS-100
drwxrwxrwx  4 atg atg 4096 Jul 21 06:52 'Universe Sandbox 2'
atg@tortoise ~/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common $


And for the love of god, can someone PLEASE fix libcdio!!


/bin/sh ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
-m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../.. 
-I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../../include
-I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/include/   -march=native -pipe -O3   -Wall
-Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wendif-labels
-Winline -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wno-sign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef
-Wunused -Wwrite-strings -c -o FreeBSD/freebsd_cam.lo
../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/FreeBSD/freebsd_cam.c
libtool: compile:  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../..
-I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../../include
-I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/include/ -march=native -pipe -O3 -Wall
-Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wendif-labels
-Winline -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wno-sign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef
-Wunused -Wwrite-strings -c ../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/util.c 
-fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/util.o
libtool: compile:  x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../..
-I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver -I../../include
-I../../../libcdio-2.0.0/include/ -march=native -pipe -O3 -Wall
-Wbad-function-cast -Wcast-align -Wchar-subscripts
-Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wdisabled-optimization -Wendif-labels
-Winline -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wnested-externs
-Wno-sign-compare -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow -Wstrict-prototypes -Wundef
-Wunused -Wwrite-strings -c ../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/utf8.c 
-fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/utf8.o
../../../libcdio-2.0.0/lib/driver/utf8.c:350:3: error: #error "The iconv
library is needed to build drivers, but it is not detected"
 # error "The iconv library is needed to 

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-29 Thread James Stevenson
I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32
libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the
library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam from
my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use but that's
my whole setup.

James

media-libs/mesa abi_x86_32
>=dev-libs/expat-2.2.5 abi_x86_32
>=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.11-r1 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libX11-1.6.5-r1 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libxshmfence-1.3-r1 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libXdamage-1.1.4-r2 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libXext-1.3.3-r1 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libxcb-1.13 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libXfixes-5.0.3-r1 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.91 abi_x86_32
>=sys-devel/llvm-5.0.2 abi_x86_32
>=sys-libs/ncurses-6.1-r2 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.14 abi_x86_32
>=dev-libs/libpthread-stubs-0.4 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libXau-1.0.8-r1 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.1.2-r2 abi_x86_32
>=x11-base/xcb-proto-1.13 abi_x86_32
>=virtual/libffi-3.0.13-r1 abi_x86_32
>=x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.4-r1 abi_x86_32
>=dev-libs/libffi-3.2.1 abi_x86_32


On Sun, Jul 29, 2018, 3:22 AM R0b0t1  wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Alan Grimes  wrote:
> > A picture is beginning to emerge, after the reboot..
> >
> >
> > It did not give a usable error message so I had panicked and probably
> > cleaned more than I should have... 73% chance the underlying issue was a
> > graphics driver version bump that SHOULD have been clearly reported, but
> > wasn't, the remaining chance being something else that had become
> > incompatible while I was trying to update this junk. =\
> >
> > There was a library that I had to downgrade to version 1.8, from 2.x,
> > that cleared an error, so it tried to load,
> >
> >
> > Now it gets stuck eternally on "Connecting Steam Account: [...]"
> >
> > The logs are split among about 10^3 (rough estimate) different files,
> > all of which are extremely boring...
> >
>
> Can you not run Steam in a VM or container? Distributed binaries on
> Linux being pinned to old library versions has always been an issue.
> There was a period of time roughly 1.5yr ago where people were
> claiming Valve/Steam/developers had learned better (I attribute this
> instead to Ubuntu starting to maintain more recent libraries) but it
> seems like everything is broken again.
>
> It looks like the errors you posted are exactly this issue, and this
> is the one way to fix it forever. In my case I wouldn't trust Steam on
> my main system anyway and would have to run it in a VM.
>
> Cheers,
>  R0b0t1
>
>


Re: [gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-28 Thread R0b0t1
On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Alan Grimes  wrote:
> A picture is beginning to emerge, after the reboot..
>
>
> It did not give a usable error message so I had panicked and probably
> cleaned more than I should have... 73% chance the underlying issue was a
> graphics driver version bump that SHOULD have been clearly reported, but
> wasn't, the remaining chance being something else that had become
> incompatible while I was trying to update this junk. =\
>
> There was a library that I had to downgrade to version 1.8, from 2.x,
> that cleared an error, so it tried to load,
>
>
> Now it gets stuck eternally on "Connecting Steam Account: [...]"
>
> The logs are split among about 10^3 (rough estimate) different files,
> all of which are extremely boring...
>

Can you not run Steam in a VM or container? Distributed binaries on
Linux being pinned to old library versions has always been an issue.
There was a period of time roughly 1.5yr ago where people were
claiming Valve/Steam/developers had learned better (I attribute this
instead to Ubuntu starting to maintain more recent libraries) but it
seems like everything is broken again.

It looks like the errors you posted are exactly this issue, and this
is the one way to fix it forever. In my case I wouldn't trust Steam on
my main system anyway and would have to run it in a VM.

Cheers,
 R0b0t1



[gentoo-user] Steam is still BROKEN

2018-07-28 Thread Alan Grimes
A picture is beginning to emerge, after the reboot..


It did not give a usable error message so I had panicked and probably
cleaned more than I should have... 73% chance the underlying issue was a
graphics driver version bump that SHOULD have been clearly reported, but
wasn't, the remaining chance being something else that had become
incompatible while I was trying to update this junk. =\

There was a library that I had to downgrade to version 1.8, from 2.x,
that cleared an error, so it tried to load,


Now it gets stuck eternally on "Connecting Steam Account: [...]"

The logs are split among about 10^3 (rough estimate) different files,
all of which are extremely boring...

cef_log.txt has ###
[0728/210847.671210:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration
is not supported after context initialization
[0728/211316.451426:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(1029)] Lost
UI shared context.
[0728/211316.459702:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: UserID with value: 0
[0728/211316.459725:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: BuildID with value: 1532744228
[0728/211316.459739:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: SteamUniverse with value: Public
[0728/211316.459748:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: Version with value: 20180728015207
[0728/211316.459759:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: ProductName with value: cefwebhelper
[0728/211316.459768:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: Vendor with value: Valve
[0728/211318.461379:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration
is not supported after context initialization
[0728/211319.462074:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration
is not supported after context initialization
[0728/211320.463170:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration
is not supported after context initialization
[0728/211321.463796:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration
is not supported after context initialization
[0728/211321.474902:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: SteamUniverse with value: Public
[0728/211322.464732:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration
is not supported after context initialization



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/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/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 disabled by the user
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1532744228)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1532744228)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1532744228)
[0728/212643.662934:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: UserID with value: 0
[0728/212643.662981:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: BuildID with value: 1532742727
[0728/212643.662986:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: SteamUniverse with value: Public
[0728/212643.662991:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: Version with value: 20180728015207
[0728/212643.662995:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: ProductName with value: cefwebhelper
[0728/212643.663000:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: Vendor with value: Valve
[0728/212643.672509:ERROR:gpu_process_transport_factory.cc(1029)] Lost
UI shared context.
[0728/212643.680868:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: UserID with value: 0
[0728/212643.680893:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: BuildID with value: 1532744228
[0728/212643.680902:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: SteamUniverse with value: Public
[0728/212643.680910:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: Version with value: 20180728015207
[0728/212643.680918:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: ProductName with value: cefwebhelper
[0728/212643.680927:WARNING:crash_reporting.cc(254)] Failed to set crash
key: Vendor with value: Valve
CApplicationManagerPopulateThread took 14 milliseconds to initialize
(will have waited on CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1532744228)
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 29 milliseconds to initialize
[0728/212645.682207:ERROR:web_plugin_impl.cc(38)] Widevine registration
is not supported after context initialization