I tried re-installing it but it simply keeps giving me this error in a little window. When I close it, an identical error pops up some 3 seconds later without any new provocation.
8 Answers
I have installed libnss-resolve:i386
by running the following command.
apt-get install libnss-resolve:i386
And now it works for me.
Make sure steam isn't running at all in ~/.steam/
.
Delete
~/.steam/steam.pid
Edit
~/.steam/registry.vdf
line 29 from "Offline" "1" to "Offline" "0"
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1In my case, "Offline" was already set to "0" but Steam kept starting in Offline mode. Luckily, step 1 was enough to fix the issue.– HubroJul 21, 2013 at 22:23
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2what is ~/.steam/steam.pid , is it some kind of directory where can i Find it– SanjeevDec 19, 2015 at 18:57
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I am having this problem and your solution didn't work because the file ~/.steam/registry.vdf didn't exist– cazortFeb 20, 2021 at 17:04
I am running Ubuntu 17.04 and the other answers didn't solve it. I had force an entry on /etc/hosts
for media.steampowered.com
.
So, first get the IP with
ping media.steampowered.com
# returns 200.143.247.11 for me
then add that to /etc/hosts
, like this:
200.143.247.11 media.steampowered.com
And it should work as expected.
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2Also, I needed to install
libnss-resolve:i386
as mentioned in bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/steam/+bug/1651025– NokiSep 9, 2017 at 13:44
This solved it for me
sudo apt-get install xfonts-75dpi xfonts-100dpi
Try it! if first time dont work, restart!
This is a solution that worked for me with (gnome 3) Ubuntu 17.04
Install the package libnss-resolve:i386
(sudo apt-get install libnss-resolve:i386
)
After following all solutions on this page, steam would still fail on first start after install.
Steam's cdn has stale files. In order to fix this, you must bypass all cdn's and directly download from the origin servers.
In order to do that, I've added the following to /etc/hosts
:
208.64.200.30 media.steampowered.com
208.64.200.30 media1.steampowered.com
208.64.200.30 media2.steampowered.com
208.64.200.30 media3.steampowered.com
208.64.200.30 media4.steampowered.com
The 208.64.200.30
ip correponds to cdn-01-origin.steampowered.com
.
In my case there was not enough space on the disk. At least 250MB are required. After freeing space, the install process started correctly.
I tried the above solutions, and while I was finally able to update the client,and log in, the problem I was facing. Actually being able to play a game (content server unreachable) was not possible.
I was able to solve the problem by adding
207.173.177.11 steam1.steampowered.com To /etc/hosts file. And then launching steam from command line.
Hope this helps someone!