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.