Steam no longer works (flatpak, nvidia graphics card)

kreibaum · May 21, 2019, 5:25pm

Hi, I am new to Fedora and have troubles using Steam. It was working a while ago but is broken now, I believe I updated some packages.

When starting Steam via flatpak I get the following error message:

[rolf@dragonfly ~]$ flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam
https://github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam/wiki/Frequently-asked-questions
Overriding TZ to Europe/Berlin
Running Steam on org.freedesktop.platform 18.08.30 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Pins up-to-date!
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1556574584)
libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

If I understand the output correctly, Steam is trying to load software rendering libraries and failing. That looks like something with my proprietary Nvidia drivers may be wrong. But running nvidia-smi indicates to me that the proprietary drivers are installed:

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 418.67       Driver Version: 418.67       CUDA Version: 10.1     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  GeForce GTX 107...  Off  | 00000000:07:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 43%   38C    P2    34W / 180W |    351MiB /  8116MiB |      0%      Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

While trying to fix it, I already tried to uninstall the drivers using sudo dnf remove *nvidia* --noautoremove and then reinstall them via sudo dnf install cuda. I did that, because dnf update was unable to update some packages and I thought that might be related.

I did also try flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam --reset but the problem remains. This is not a general problem with flatpak as (for example) Spotify works.

What can I do to find out more about the problem and to solve it?

[rolf@dragonfly ~]$ dnf list installed | grep nvidia
dkms-nvidia.x86_64                                3:418.67-1.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-driver.x86_64                              3:418.67-4.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-driver-NVML.x86_64                         3:418.67-4.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-driver-NvFBCOpenGL.x86_64                  3:418.67-4.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-driver-cuda.x86_64                         3:418.67-4.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-driver-cuda-libs.x86_64                    3:418.67-4.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-driver-devel.x86_64                        3:418.67-4.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-driver-libs.x86_64                         3:418.67-4.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-libXNVCtrl.x86_64                          3:418.67-1.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-libXNVCtrl-devel.x86_64                    3:418.67-1.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-modprobe.x86_64                            3:418.74-1.fc30                        @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-persistenced.x86_64                        3:418.67-1.fc29                        @cuda                           
nvidia-settings.x86_64                            3:418.74-1.fc30                        @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver
nvidia-xconfig.x86_64                             3:418.74-1.fc30                        @rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver

tjdoyle · May 21, 2019, 6:59pm

Hi,

github.com/flathub/com.valvesoftware.Steam

Missing dependencies for 64bit graphics drivers

opened 01:34PM - 07 Feb 18 UTC

closed 09:08PM - 08 Feb 18 UTC

jay-15

Hello Flatpak team, just trying out flatpak on my ArchLinux box and Steam does …start right away, but anytime I try to start a game, the game process is just hangs. No new window is opened. The game process can only be stopped by `pkill -9 $GAME`. This happens for Starbound and CS:GO. I did not try any other games. I tried to investigate by ``` $ flatpak run --command=bash com.valvesoftware.Steam bash-4.3$ cd /home/rotational/steam/steamapps/common/Starbound/linux bash-4.3$ ldd ./starbound linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc72ee2000) libSDL2-2.0.so.0 => /lib/libSDL2-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fdfbff59000) libGLU.so.1 => not found libGL.so.1 => /lib/libGL.so.1 (0x00007fdfbfccd000) libSM.so.6 => /lib/libSM.so.6 (0x00007fdfbfac5000) libICE.so.6 => /lib/libICE.so.6 (0x00007fdfbf8a9000) libX11.so.6 => /lib/libX11.so.6 (0x00007fdfbf568000) libXext.so.6 => /lib/libXext.so.6 (0x00007fdfbf356000) libsteam_api.so => not found libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x0000003bd8200000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003bd7e00000) librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x0000003bd8600000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fdfbf050000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0000003bd7a00000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003bd7600000) libwayland-egl.so.1 => /lib/libwayland-egl.so.1 (0x00007fdfbee4e000) libwayland-cursor.so.0 => /lib/libwayland-cursor.so.0 (0x00007fdfbec46000) libwayland-client.so.0 => /lib/libwayland-client.so.0 (0x00007fdfbea37000) libffi.so.6 => /lib/libffi.so.6 (0x00007fdfbe82e000) libxkbcommon.so.0 => /lib/libxkbcommon.so.0 (0x00007fdfbe5ec000) libGLX.so.0 => /lib/libGLX.so.0 (0x00007fdfbe3bb000) libxcb.so.1 => /lib/libxcb.so.1 (0x00007fdfbe193000) libXau.so.6 => /lib/libXau.so.6 (0x00007fdfbdf8f000) libGLdispatch.so.0 => /lib/libGLdispatch.so.0 (0x00007fdfbdcd9000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007fdfbdad4000) bash-4.3$ ./run-client.sh ./starbound: error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory bash-4.3$ bash-4.3$ echo "Well, WELL! We have a bash prompt, so the game doesn't hang if we start it via bash prompt. Weird!" ``` For CS:GO the output is different: ``` bash-4.3$ cd "/home/rotational/steam/steamapps/common/Counter-Strike Global Offensive" bash-4.3$ ldd csgo_linux64 linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffd3597000) libtcmalloc_minimal.so.0 => not found libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003bd7e00000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x0000003bd7a00000) /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003bd7600000) bash-4.3$ ./csgo.sh libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast ``` and here it hangs, so I have to `pkill -9 csgo_linux64`. I have got the proprietrary Nvidia drivers with ``` $ flatpak --version Flatpak 0.10.3 $ flatpak --gl-drivers nvidia-390-25 default host $ flatpak list Ref Options com.valvesoftware.Steam/x86_64/stable system,current org.freedesktop.Platform.Compat32/x86_64/1.6 system,runtime org.freedesktop.Platform.GL32.nvidia-390-25/x86_64/1.4 system,runtime org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/1.6 system,runtime ``` Any help is greatly appreciated.

From reading the github issue, it seems that flatpak update or installing the nvidia drivers within flatpak should resolve the issue.

Thanks Tom.

kreibaum · May 21, 2019, 7:59pm

Thanks, your solution did work. I had to do a bit more to get it working though.

I removed the cuda repo from where I originally got my cuda packages and removed the proprietary nvidia drivers. Then I reinstalled them using instructions from Howto/NVIDIA - RPM Fusion and rebooted my PC. After that running flatpak update as suggested installed missing packages for flatpak.

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