Hello everyone! I have this issue with my steam on arch linux where it takes about 5 minutes and sometimes more to start, then I keep getting connection errors when trying to sign in. Ive opened an issue on the github page you can read for more details (logs etc)
Basically now I’m wondering if I should just reinstall steam and see if that fixes it. Here is the situation though. I have a steam library in my /home partition, as well as on a separate hard drive which is always mounted. I have copied the steamapps directory from the home side of things to a temporary location, so I assume if I reinstall and copy it back I should have all my games and stuff set up exactly as they were before the issue? Also, do I need to backup the steamapps directory from the hard drive which is separate to /home?
The reason I’m so hesitant to just wipe everything and reinstall, is because I spent a good couple of weeks trying to get Silent Hunter 3 set up with steamtinkerlaunch, and even on release it was quite a finnicky game, let alone 20-something years later on linux running through proton, and now I have it at a point where it works.
Anyway, I would love some help, so thanks in advance!
P.s. Updating system didn’t solve issue
This started happening to me 3 days ago. I did a full system update yesterday, as well as today, and still nothing different. I logged into the account from the browser normally, it immediately gave me the steam guard popup.
It does seem to be some kind of networking issue I think by looking at the output it spits out if I launch it from the terminal, but I just am not familiar with steam’s inner workings enough to know that for sure.
Are you able to try Flatpak steam? I was having ssl issues which resulted in blue spinning wheel but can’t remember the resolution…
I want to avoid flatpacks, and I dont want to have to use it just for steam and nothing else.
Oh I understand that. Eventually I got my steam to work outside of it but I was desperate to play games at first.
I found out what I did thru history. Strace against steam, triggered the error messages, then pasted the strace output to chatgpt. Steam was looking for ssl certs in a particular directory. Once they were symlinked in it magically started to work.
The weird thing is it worked perfectly fine before. Discord crashed a d due to my setup (bspwm + sxhkd) it for some reason causes those to crash as well, so when i unlock i have no ability to shutdown properly, so i have to use the physical power button. When I turned it back on, poof steam didnt work. Probably an update that i did before the crash, which became active on reboot.