I am running Fedora 36 - XFCE and I installed steam using the DNF command.
When I try to run Steam either via the Applications menu or via CLI it doesn’t launch. I have updated the system and I am running 5.17.6-300.fc36.x86_64.
This is the error I get if I try to launch Steam via CLI:
2022-05-15 10:21:14] Manifest download: waiting for download to finish
[2022-05-15 10:21:14] Manifest download: finished
[2022-05-15 10:21:14] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1652488014, installed version 1652488014, existing pending version 0
[2022-05-15 10:21:14] Nothing to do
[2022-05-15 10:21:14] Verifying installation...
[2022-05-15 10:21:14] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2022-05-15 10:21:15] Verification complete
Loaded SDL version 2.0.22-7215337
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
steamwebhelper.sh[22243]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/MYUSERNAME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
steamwebhelper.sh[22243]: glibc >= 2.34, partially disabling sandbox until CEF supports clone3()
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 0 milliseconds to initialize
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
No minidump written, nothing to upload.
/home/MYUSERNAME/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 794: 22222 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
(I’ve only installed the Nvidia driver as per that wik article’s steps for my rtx 2060 and dnf Steam doesn’t mention noveau, nothing mentions noveau, I guess the modprobe lines are in the boot entry and would verify stat except I thought copying 1,2TB from one mechanical USB 3 drive to another would take less than 40hrs )
I was able to launch it by typing DRI_PRIME=1 steam in CLI. Is there a way to add this to Steam in order to not having to write this every time in CLI for it to run?
I had steam installed and functional on my machine with GTX 1050 Ti when I was running fedora 34.
I just did an update to fedora 36 and it still works.
I installed steam from rpmfusion and it shows this as installed
After a reboot, Steam still doesn’t launch. It gives me this error:
(steam:3673): Gtk-WARNING **: 15:40:57.216: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
MESA-INTEL: warning: Performance support disabled, consider sysctl dev.i915.perf_stream_paranoid=0
roaming config store loaded successfully - 242 bytes.
migrating temporary roaming config store
BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 8ms
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1652488014)
Failed to init SteamVR because it isn't installed
libGL error: failed to create dri screen
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
ExecCommandLine: "'/home/MYUSERNAME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam'"
System startup time: 3.24 seconds
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/home/MYUSERNAME/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 794: 3673 Segmentation fault (core dumped) "$STEAMROOT/$STEAMEXEPATH" "$@"
If you look there is a kmod-nvidia package that was built specifically for that kernel by the akmod-nvidia package and depending upon which was created/installed first there may very well be conflicts between the provided modules.
You do not have the rpmfusion-nonfree-steam repo enabled, which may contribute to the problem
You can modify the steam.desktop file, it should be under /usr/share/applications
You’ll want to copy that file to /home/$USER/.local/share/applications
Modify the Exec line for steam to: Exec=env DRI_PRIME=1 /usr/bin/steam %U
I also install steam with sudo dnf install steam, but in my repolist there is available rpmfusion-nonfree-steam and my steam installed from there. Maybe you must uinstalled current steam and re-install from that repo.
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