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Bazzite•3mo ago•
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Cobalt

Steam unable to launch any games

tl;dr, steam won't launch anything. Play button spins a bit, no window appears, goes back to being a play button nearly instantly. I'm not familiar enough to know where to start troubleshooting, so please bear with me.
Ran Steam via the terminal, I tend to see this spew every time, but nothing is standing out to me as particularly damning.
chdir "/var/mnt/games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Hardspace Shipbreaker"
Game Recording - would start recording game 1161580, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 33825 for gameID 1161580
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/cobalt/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/cobalt/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/cobalt/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
pid 33828 != 33825, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1161580]
Removing process 33825 for gameID 1161580
chdir "/var/mnt/games/SteamLibrary/steamapps/common/Hardspace Shipbreaker"
Game Recording - would start recording game 1161580, but recording for this game is disabled
Adding process 33825 for gameID 1161580
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/cobalt/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/usr/lib/extest/libextest.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/cobalt/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/var/home/cobalt/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.
pid 33828 != 33825, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)
WARNING: discarding _NET_WM_PID 5 as invalid for X11 window - use specialized XCB_X11_TO_PID function!
Game Recording - game stopped [gameid=1161580]
Removing process 33825 for gameID 1161580


I'm on Bazzite 43, KDE + Nvidia flavor. Only layering
ckb-next
ckb-next
for the keyboard I use.
Solution
Wild shit. Got it working. Unfortunately, nuking my external steam library did not work. Looking in my ~/.steam folder, I found a weird little folder with unprintable unicode characters (
\034\310\f
\034\310\f
). Nuked that + all caches + configs, ran
ujust fix-reset-steam
ujust fix-reset-steam
, reinstalled a small game locally... Boom. Worked.
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