I've migrated all of my gaming over to GOG. I kept some of the x86_32 libraries from ~/.local/share/steam incase I need to add them to the library path for launching some games but otherwise I've removed steam from my PC. I've also set my video drivers to 32b in my package.use but that's my whole setup.
James media-libs/mesa abi_x86_32 >=dev-libs/expat-2.2.5 abi_x86_32 >=sys-libs/zlib-1.2.11-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libX11-1.6.5-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libxshmfence-1.3-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libXdamage-1.1.4-r2 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libXext-1.3.3-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libxcb-1.13 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libXfixes-5.0.3-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.91 abi_x86_32 >=sys-devel/llvm-5.0.2 abi_x86_32 >=sys-libs/ncurses-6.1-r2 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.14 abi_x86_32 >=dev-libs/libpthread-stubs-0.4 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libXau-1.0.8-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.1.2-r2 abi_x86_32 >=x11-base/xcb-proto-1.13 abi_x86_32 >=virtual/libffi-3.0.13-r1 abi_x86_32 >=x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.1.4-r1 abi_x86_32 >=dev-libs/libffi-3.2.1 abi_x86_32 On Sun, Jul 29, 2018, 3:22 AM R0b0t1 <r03...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 28, 2018 at 8:33 PM, Alan Grimes <alonz...@verizon.net> wrote: > > A picture is beginning to emerge, after the reboot.. > > > > > > It did not give a usable error message so I had panicked and probably > > cleaned more than I should have... 73% chance the underlying issue was a > > graphics driver version bump that SHOULD have been clearly reported, but > > wasn't, the remaining chance being something else that had become > > incompatible while I was trying to update this junk. =\ > > > > There was a library that I had to downgrade to version 1.8, from 2.x, > > that cleared an error, so it tried to load, > > > > > > Now it gets stuck eternally on "Connecting Steam Account: [...]" > > > > The logs are split among about 10^3 (rough estimate) different files, > > all of which are extremely boring... > > > > Can you not run Steam in a VM or container? Distributed binaries on > Linux being pinned to old library versions has always been an issue. > There was a period of time roughly 1.5yr ago where people were > claiming Valve/Steam/developers had learned better (I attribute this > instead to Ubuntu starting to maintain more recent libraries) but it > seems like everything is broken again. > > It looks like the errors you posted are exactly this issue, and this > is the one way to fix it forever. In my case I wouldn't trust Steam on > my main system anyway and would have to run it in a VM. > > Cheers, > R0b0t1 > >
