VTMarik

I'm using the Steam from the repositories, works fine here. Try run it via the terminal and see if anything useful shows up.

    6 days later

    I figured my problem out, it was a problem with Steam not playing nicely with the NTFS drive that my games are installed to.

    2 months later
    a month later

    Well,since months nothing happenend with this issiue,despite several OS updates
    i still get the same errormessage when trying to start Steam in Solus.
    "Steamwebhelper not responding"

      Friedell I've not had any Steam issues with the repo version, but I'm using Plasma and Nvidia with X. Not sure if any of that makes any difference for your case. If you're using Nvidia, make sure to check the 32 bit library box in DoFlicky (hardware driver manager) when you install the driver or Steam will not launch.

      Have you tried launching steam from terminal? Post the output here, that might help track down the issue.

          I`m also affected by this issue but what confuses me most is that steam still runs under Budgie.DE.

            MikeK61 on the same computer? Because this problem is hardware dependant. It only affects older PC CPU that miss some instruction set archictecture (ISA) that most of modern/newer CPU have.

                alfisya

                Yep, same computer and same Solus installation.
                For some reason i have Plasma and Budgie.

                    zmaint Solus uses the source that Valve provides (my guess), and the fix is not jet released (probably they are working on it) from Valve, I use Steam from flatpak and it works, I haven't used it from several day ago though, will try it wen I have time.

                      From what ive read it has something to do with glibc-hwcaps and the way the steamsoftware
                      looks for certain libraries. Before the Steamupdate in late february all was fine because Steam
                      was able to find this libraries in Solus. After the update it only finds the V3 version and that
                      causes the steamwebhelper crash on older CPUs. In my case a FX8350.

                      9 days later

                      alfisya Well,so far nothing has changed since my initial posting. And basicly it excludes all
                      CPU`s that doesnt support the AVX2 instruction set from using Steam under Solus (and many other distros).
                      And its only Steams own webhelper app that seems to need this instructions under Linux,because the same
                      hardware works perfectly fine under old Win7 to this day.

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                          Friedell You can work around that by using the unofficial Steam Flatpak.

                            21 days later

                            Well,since last friday Steam works again. With the last Steamclientupdate came the possibility
                            to circumvent hwcaps with a inbuild hack in Solus.
                            Its activated by tipping into the terminal : echo "STEAM_HACK_IGNORE_HWCAPS=1" | sudo tee /etc/environment
                            Than log out and log in again,then tipp in terminal:
                            Run sudo ldconfig -X

                            It works for the time being at least,but i guess future Steamupdates will refine it.