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jtsn, be that as it may...I've been using Alien Bob's steam client package since day one (having given up on my own package). I've got symlinks in ~/.steam pointing to all the goodies in ~/Steam so either I'm using the wrong package under Xfce, or there are two Alien Bobs. Besides, looking at the steam-1.0.0.42.tar.gz "source" packages processed via steamclient.Slackbuild shows that ~/.steam is hard coded.
Which bring us back around to heiser891's seg fault issue on -current. He is probably either missing a dependency, or -current has one that is too new for the steam debugger. Perhaps exploring for other warnings/errors in the console output will provide clues.
Several days ago I installed 1.0.0.42. Haven't tried Alien's steam packages since the very beginning and was surprised how easy was it to install and that it worked out of the box. I tried downloading 1 demo and 1 free-to-play game just to see how it works, and it worked perfectly.
Just wanted to say thank you to AlienBob for doing a good job. And also thanx to Valve and the GabeN for having an ear for non-Ubuntu distros (no nasty dependencies anymore).
I'm using slackware64-current with Alien's most recent build of steam. I have all my multilibs, compat32s of OpenAL, flash, and oxygen-gtk installed, yet I cannot click any buttons in steam.
$ steam
Slackware 32-bit: Check the 'deps/<slackwareversion>' directory where you downloaded this package and install/upgrade the packages you find there.
Slackware 64-bit multilib: Install/upgrade the packages in the 'deps/<slackwareversion>/multilib' subdirectory instead.
Running Steam on slackware 14.1 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20141121162341)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1416587021)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1416587021)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(20141121162341)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1416587021)
[1226/231715:ERROR:nss_util.cc(1018)] Failed to load NSS libraries.
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
FillInMachineIDInfo took a total of 0 milliseconds
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
PulseAudio connect failed (used only for Mic Volume Control) with error: Access denied
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
[1226/231715:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(218)] GTK theme error: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",
[1226/231715:ERROR:browser_main_loop.cc(218)] GTK theme error: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "oxygen-gtk",
[1226/231716:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(227)] Running without renderer sandbox
[1226/231716:ERROR:renderer_main.cc(227)] Running without renderer sandbox
Generating new string page texture 12: 48x256, total string texture memory is 49.15 KB
Generating new string page texture 13: 256x256, total string texture memory is 311.30 KB
Generating new string page texture 14: 128x256, total string texture memory is 442.37 KB
Generating new string page texture 15: 384x256, total string texture memory is 835.58 KB
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 70: non-double matrix element
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line 78: saw unknown, expected number
Generating new string page texture 21: 64x256, total string texture memory is 901.12 KB
Generating new string page texture 22: 8x256, total string texture memory is 909.31 KB
process 2351: The last reference on a connection was dropped without closing the connection. This is a bug in an application. See dbus_connection_unref() documentation for details.
Most likely, the application was supposed to call dbus_connection_close(), since this is a private connection.
Assert( Assertion Failed: Invalid message in browser stream (295040) ):/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/webhelper/html_chrome.cpp:337
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steamwebhelper)/version(1416587021)
Uploading dump (out-of-process) [proxy '']
/tmp/dumps/crash_20141226231729_5.dmp
Requested Force create but SharedObjectMutex already created
Forced create but already created for SharedObjectEvent
Forced create but already created for SharedObjectEvent
Timed out waiting for mutex in GetInternal()
/home/buildbot/buildslave_steam/steam_rel_client_ubuntu12_linux/build/src/webhelper/html_chrome.cpp (337) : Assertion Failed: Invalid message in browser stream (295040)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1416617579)
[2014-12-26 23:17:14] Startup - updater built Nov 21 2014 16:23:41
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
[2014-12-26 23:17:14] Checking for update on startup
[2014-12-26 23:17:14] Checking for available updates...
[2014-12-26 23:17:14] Download skipped by HTTP 304 Not Modified
[2014-12-26 23:17:14] Nothing to do
[2014-12-26 23:17:14] Verifying installation...
[2014-12-26 23:17:14] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2014-12-26 23:17:15] Verification complete
[2014-12-26 23:17:30] Shutdown
Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
response: CrashID=bp-ddb8885c-8a7b-4c1d-a617-f09152141226
What went wrong?
I'm thinking it might have to do with my having an Nvidia graphics card. Is there some compat32 driver I need for that?
If you use the Nvidia driver, you have to re-install that everytime there has been an upgrade to the Slackware packages mesa or xorg-0server. Additionally on a multilib system, when you are installing the Nvidia driver, when it asks to also install the 32-bit libraries you have to answer "Yes".
I am running Steam on a slackware64-current machine with multilib and I can use the GUI just fine.
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU…Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module
Thanks for the replies, AlienBob and ninikos.
I've since discovered that I'm using an Optimus laptop, which apparently changes things considerably.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Geremia
I've installed Bumblebee with Ryan McQuen's crazybee.sh script, described here, and I'm actually able to startx successfully now (because Bumblebee uses the on-board Intel graphics by default), but when I invoke optirun to run a program with the Nvidia card, I get:
Code:
[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU
Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module
The "Turbo" light on the laptop, which indicates if the Nvidia card is on, turns on when I invoke optirun, which is good.
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