2ndary HD not mounting as executable so Steam for Linux can't use it

[steve7233]

steve7233@steve7233-EP45-UD3P:~$ chown -R steve7233 /media/steve7233/'Steam for Linux'/SteamLibrary
steve7233@steve7233-EP45-UD3P:~$

Steam still gives the same error message.

[steve7233]

Does this help?

From http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410...5961933411920/

Mark has Steam for Linux Jun 29 @ 5:41pm
Also steam isn't compatible with x86_64 libraries, perhaps adding i386 as an architecture to the package manager may work. But I have no idea of how the installation is done in Ubuntu, I do know how it works in Debian & Gentoo.

See, in Debian we I have acquired the .deb packages and ran the following:
$ dpkg -i steam_latest.deb
$ apt-get install -f

It pulled many i386 libraries to my system since I have previously added i386 to dpkg with the following command:
$ dpkg --add-architecture i386

But if this user doesn't have the proprietary graphics card drivers then how is he supposed to run games?

I would suggest the author to run the following:
$ glxinfo | grep rendering
$ glxgears

To give us an idea of what might be happening.

Edit: Also check if you're in the "video" group.

[steve7233]

This one looks like it might be a similar problem.
http://askubuntu.com/questions/64052...-steam-library

[steve7233]

I am still trying to solve this.

[steve7233]

At this point I am thinking its probably a Steam for Linux problem since it seems to be mounted correctly. The attributes for everything are r w x. I emailed Steam support. Hopefully they will say something soon.

[steve7233]

My primary drive has the same attributes as my secondary drive r,w,x and it works with steam. Why doesn’t my secondary drive work with steam? I submitted a ticket to steam tech support about a week ago but so far no response.

[vinnywright]

just so you know ,,,,,, I am having this exact same issue @hear ,,,,,,,,,as a test I installed steam on my Debian system last night ,,,,,,,,,I used steams settings>downloads>set library location ,,,,,to my steam folder on my storage drive (that Kubuntu-14.04 uses just fine ,,,,,but have not checked that it still is) and am getting the same error .

I did find some posts on the net saying that the "executable" checker in steam is ,,,,not working right ATM. ,,,,but thay were a few months old and should have been fixed by now .

VINNY

[vinnywright]

OK got it ,,,,,,,,,go to your old(the one your having trouble attaching) /steam/ folder (the one that contains "SteamApps" folder and do

ln -s SteamApps steamapps

the new updates to steam make it look for steamapps instead of SteamApps ,,,,,stupid mistake on their part IMO

I can now attach it as a new library folder and it sees my old games

PS a google search for the hole error message led me to this https://steamcommunity.com/app/22141...7316152433246/

vinny@debian:/mnt/btrfs/kubuntu/steam$ ln -s SteamApps steamapps 
vinny@debian:/mnt/btrfs/kubuntu/steam$ ls
steamapps  SteamApps
vinny@debian:/mnt/btrfs/kubuntu/steam$

VINNY

[steve7233]

I just discovered this on the Steam forums. All my games are back now. If it weren’t for that erroneous error message, me and a lot of others might have solved this a lot sooner.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/221410...29820798333399

O looks like VINNY already found this. I didn't see that when I posted this.

[vinnywright]

☢VINNY☢

[otisklt]

I am using the Steam beta and I had a similar issue where the app would load but the store page did not and my installed games were not showing up.
The content was there, but Steam was buggered for a build. I was also getting a /bin/dash crash with it starting up.

Issue is no more for me after a Steam update and some kub updates.