Universal Blue•1h ago

Steam suddenly refuses to launch Proton games and no logs are generated

Hey. I've run out of google-foo. Basically, any game I try to launch on Steam using Proton just straight up refuses to launch. 1) The drives the games are installed on are BTRFS 2) I can confirm that last week I could successfully launch games 3) Adding PROTON_LOG=1 %command% to the launch options does not generate any log file anywhere (used FSearch to check everywhere) 4) Launching steam through the terminal to observe any errors just shows -----------------will attach the output in the next message----------------- 5) Launching native games that are on the same drive works just fine. Trying to launch the same game with Proton fails 6) Moving the game to the drive Bazzite's installed on doesn't fix the issue 7) Tried to launch steam games using Lutris, also doesn't work. I see the "play" button on steam flash from "CANCEL" back to "PLAY" within seconds 8) User/group ownership for the steam library is correctly set to my user and group but I chown-ed it anyway just in case and it didn't change anything Any ideas? I haven't tried to play a game since last week so I can't exactly know when the issue started

Solution:

Fully exit steam (it should not be in system tray) then run cd ~/.local/share followed by mv Steam Steam.bak. Steam may not start with capital S, idr how it was. try as "steam" if "Steam" doesn't work...

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ScarfaceOP•1h ago

chdir "/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Reverse Collapse Code Name Bakery"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 1127700, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 15614 for gameID 1127700
pressure-vessel-wrap[15615]: E: Could not create copy "./include/X11/bitmaps/1x1" from "/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/sniper_platform_3.0.20250723.149183/files/./include/X11/bitmaps/1x1" into "/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/var/tmp-QKOPD3/usr": fstatat(./include/X11/bitmaps/1x1): No such file or directory
Adding process 15615 for gameID 1127700
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Adding process 15616 for gameID 1127700
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1127700]
Removing process 15616 for gameID 1127700
Removing process 15615 for gameID 1127700
Removing process 15614 for gameID 1127700

chdir "/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Reverse Collapse Code Name Bakery"
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
Game Recording - would start recording game 1127700, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 15614 for gameID 1127700
pressure-vessel-wrap[15615]: E: Could not create copy "./include/X11/bitmaps/1x1" from "/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/sniper_platform_3.0.20250723.149183/files/./include/X11/bitmaps/1x1" into "/var/home/REDACTED/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/SteamLinuxRuntime_sniper/var/tmp-QKOPD3/usr": fstatat(./include/X11/bitmaps/1x1): No such file or directory
Adding process 15615 for gameID 1127700
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Adding process 15616 for gameID 1127700
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1127700]
Removing process 15616 for gameID 1127700
Removing process 15615 for gameID 1127700
Removing process 15614 for gameID 1127700

mrvictorywin (Ping on reply)•1h ago

Verify game files of steam linux runtime sniper

ScarfaceOP•1h ago

Unfortunately that didnt work and it's still giving me the exact same error on the terminal. Is there a way to reinstall steam on Bazzite? Found the command "ujust fix-reset-steam" . It didnt fix the issue unfortunately, still observing the same error in the terminal

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mrvictorywin (Ping on reply)•1h ago

ScarfaceOP•1h ago

Yup, that fixed it. Just tried to launch some of the games on the other drives and not only do they launch, i'm also seeing the log files getting generated now. Thanks for the help mate!

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