On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:08:08 -0500 Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> wrote:
> Do you have an nvidia graphics card? If so, could you try installing > nvidia-driver-libs-i386? If that works, this duplicates #839592. Hi Mike, I see there was a new steam came down recently, I am on the road and don't have a 32-bit machine handy, so tried on this 64-bit laptop that used to work. Not any longer, this is how running "steam" in a terminal finishes: [2018-02-18 12:49:56] Downloading update (274,863 of 274,863 KB)... [2018-02-18 12:49:56] Download Complete. [2018-02-18 12:49:56] uninstalled manifest found in /home/user/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12 (1). [2018-02-18 12:49:56] Extracting package... [2018-02-18 12:50:25] Installing update... [2018-02-18 12:50:27] Cleaning up... [2018-02-18 12:50:27] Update complete, launching... [2018-02-18 12:50:27] Shutdown tar: This does not look like a tar archive xz: (stdin): File format not recognized tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now find: ‘/home/user/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’: No such file or directory which looks pretty similar to how the 32-bit machine used to fail, minus the display errors. I won't be able to check the video card on the 32-bit machine until I get home, but I very much doubt it is nvidia. I generally have a policy of not buying things with nvidia cards. It is probably worth underlining that all of my desktop machines are always running Debian Testing, not a Debian Stable to be seen anywhere except in the occasional virtual machine, and I avoid customization like the plague. Almost everything should be very standard, just as the package maintainers intended. Clayton