Have you installed Steam as a Flatpak? In that case, maybe it tries to read the file system on the SSD, but has no permission to access it/its mount point
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Not a flatpak and the ssd that I originally used isn't hooked up.
I uninstalled it this morning and reinstalled it. The issue didn't pop up when I first launched it, but we'll see
Sounds like a permission problem from migrating files over, run steam from terminal to see precise errors.
I reinstalled steam from scratch, I just only migrated files that I was working on for other things
If you copied over your home user folder there may be some permission issues in the hidden directories where apps store their settings. If you suspect anything in your user directory might be an issue test creating and logging in with a new user account and see if everything works there.
That's a good idea, I'll give that a go in a bit
What happens when you start steam from a terminal, --> /usr/bin/steam
What are the errors that your getting?
Did you change ownership of the files you moved from your old storage device to a new user you setup on second install.
ls -la from your home directory and make sure that the third and fourth entries from the output match the user you have set up. They should be the same output as what echo $USER gives.
The output should look something like this
drwxr-xr-x 1 **user** **user** 13 Apr 13 2024 .
The bold bits should match your echo $USER output.
If they don't match your user you can use chown
To take ownership of those files you moved.
chown $USER:$USER **file**
There might be many files to take ownership of and it might be worth chowning your home directory recursively.
cd ~ && chown -R $USER:$USER .
None actually booted just fine.
How can I get it to do that while clicking an icon haha
First do the games launch normally without error? If you have errors you might need to do the chown thing if you users are mixed up.
if everything is working fine you can use locate to find where you OS keeps steams .desktop files:
locate 'steam.desktop'
on my machine they are :
/usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop
/usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
so since both the desktop files are in a root directory we have to change it with root privilege.
sudo nano /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop
will open the file in nano. Look for an entry that looks like Exec=/usr/bin/steam-runtime %U and change that to Exec=/usr/bin/steam. To save it [Crtl] + o and then [Ctrl] + m to save, then [Ctrl] + x should exit nano. You might want to back up those files before you edit them so you have something to go back to if something goes wrong.
sudo cp /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop /usr/lib/steam/steam.desktop.bak
sudo cp /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop.bak
here is a cheat sheet for nano
Lets first make sure that your USERS aren't messing with steam.
Now that you mention it no.
Nothing I try to launch loads
What does ls -la .steam output say for your users?
And I did a restart launch from the terminal and was able to boot at least one thing
I also should mention that in the notification thing at the top I'm seeing
"We're sorry, it looks like "steamwebhelper" crashed. Please contact developer if you want to report the issue."
That steamwebhelper error I haven't seen before but I took a look and found this github report
maybe try if you installed steam as a flatpak:
/usr/bin/flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam
You might be suffering from this bug and might have to downgrade steam till the fix reaches you. I have no Idea how to do that on fedora. I'm sure their documentation is tip top.
I get an error on that one saying app/com.valvesoftware.steam/x86_64/master not installed
just to make sure that you haven't installed the steam-flatpak.
flatpak list --all and look for steam. You might be able to grep for steam like so flatpak list --all | grep steam. If steam is not there you don't have flatpak version of steam.
If steam is not in the output there I would consult the Fedora documentation for how to downgrade a package and follow those steps to downgrade steam to an earlier version. If that doesn't work.
As I reread this thread, I must apologize, I could have done a better triage diagnosing this issue. I have been raw-dogging adhd lately and find myself a bit scattered. I really am sorry for being a bit everywhere! I do sincerely hope that downgrading steam will solve this issue. If it doesn't I'm out of ideas.
Hey no worries you were a really great help. I do really appreciate it