Hello everyone! I have this issue with my steam on arch linux where it takes about 5 minutes and sometimes more to start, then I keep getting connection errors when trying to sign in. Ive opened an issue on the github page you can read for more details (logs etc)
Basically now I’m wondering if I should just reinstall steam and see if that fixes it. Here is the situation though. I have a steam library in my /home partition, as well as on a separate hard drive which is always mounted. I have copied the steamapps directory from the home side of things to a temporary location, so I assume if I reinstall and copy it back I should have all my games and stuff set up exactly as they were before the issue? Also, do I need to backup the steamapps directory from the hard drive which is separate to /home?
The reason I’m so hesitant to just wipe everything and reinstall, is because I spent a good couple of weeks trying to get Silent Hunter 3 set up with steamtinkerlaunch, and even on release it was quite a finnicky game, let alone 20-something years later on linux running through proton, and now I have it at a point where it works.
Anyway, I would love some help, so thanks in advance!
P.s. Updating system didn’t solve issue
Just checked, and I have all the dependencies listed on the package page satisfied in some form. Now, whether some version is slightly outdated, I don’t know how to check
Hmmm, personally got into Steam just fine right now. I quickly referred to down detector - steam, to see if other people are facing the same issue, and it appears as though there was a big outage roughly 12 hours ago. Maybe it’s just catch up to you now?
If you’re on arch, it could be that one of your dependencies hasn’t updated yet. Are you able to login to your account on your internet browse?
This started happening to me 3 days ago. I did a full system update yesterday, as well as today, and still nothing different. I logged into the account from the browser normally, it immediately gave me the steam guard popup.
It does seem to be some kind of networking issue I think by looking at the output it spits out if I launch it from the terminal, but I just am not familiar with steam’s inner workings enough to know that for sure.
