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Fatal Error: Failed to load libsteam.so

Bug #1301717 reported by Mike Williamson
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This bug affects 12 people
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steam (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Installed steam with apt-get install steam.
ran steam command and it downloaded updates and then displayed a dialogue box with the following message:
Fatal Error: Failed to load libsteam.so

This is the sdtout while that was going on:

mike@sleepycat:/etc/apt/sources.list.d☺ steam
ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
[2014-04-02 22:43:12] Startup - updater built Nov 25 2013 18:07:05
[2014-04-02 22:43:12] Verifying installation...
[2014-04-02 22:43:12] Unable to read and verify install manifest /home/mike/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12.installed
[2014-04-02 22:43:12] Verification complete
[2014-04-02 22:43:12] Downloading Update...
[2014-04-02 22:43:12] Checking for available update...
[2014-04-02 22:43:13] Package file tenfoot_misc_all.zip.b2edde04f992497dc6866f65bb881b84cce49c89 missing or incorrect size
[2014-04-02 22:43:13] Package file tenfoot_dicts_all.zip.c31ed9aaeb4a023fcbc8a26a4133ef8a6e9aae29 missing or incorrect size

...

[2014-04-02 22:46:02] Downloading update (207,444 of 207,744 KB)...
[2014-04-02 22:46:02] Downloading update (207,744 of 207,744 KB)...
[2014-04-02 22:46:02] Download Complete.
[2014-04-02 22:46:02] uninstalled manifest found in /home/mike/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12 (1).
[2014-04-02 22:46:02] Extracting package...
[2014-04-02 22:46:07] Installing update...
[2014-04-02 22:46:07] BCommitUpdatedFiles: failed to create directory ./bin/shaders
[2014-04-02 22:46:07] BCommitUpdatedFiles: failed to process ./bin
[2014-04-02 22:46:07] Failed to apply update, reverting...
[2014-04-02 22:47:15] Shutdown
/usr/games/steam: 16: /usr/games/steam: /home/mike/.steam/steam.sh: not found

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu Trusty Tahr (development branch)
Release: 14.04
Codename: trusty

Pulled latest packages just before installing steam. Posted this shortly after.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in steam (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Gary Ballantine (gary-ballantine) wrote :

Seems to be a permissions issue, by performing chmod -R 777 on /home/user removing the steam directories and running the installer again it went through for me (not ideal, as will have to fix my permissions later)

There is a shaders directory in /home/user/.steam/bin/shaders maybe a change to the permissions in /home/user/.steam would have resolved the problem.

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indymaynard (indymaynard) wrote :

This affects me to this day. Manual creation of the folders gets the install done, but steam.sh throws a segmentation fault. Maybe another folder needs to be created? I haven't been able to play Steam on Linux for almost two years. This is getting frustrating.

Error: Couldn't find bootstrap, it's not safe to reset Steam. Please contact technical support.

Anyone else with this issue?

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