Pardon me if I am asking silly questions, but I seem to not be as knowledgeable as many of the people this far down the Linux rabbit-hole.

Does steam require SystemD, elogind or any of the other malicious elements that freedom-loving individuals such as myself loath? I understand that Steam itself is closed-source consumerist nonsense, but I just don't think I can be enough of a zealot to give up my Steam library lol.

I activate the 32bit repositories and install Steam as you would expect, but I get many errors and it gets stuck on "Connecting to Steam Account: [USERNAME]".

Of course, thank you in advance for any help you can provide. Again, sorry if this is a dumb question, I could not find any good information on the subject on the Forum or on a web search.

My output is as such:

steam.sh[6387]: Running Steam on obarun rolling 64-bit
steam.sh[6387]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[6460]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
steam.sh[6387]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied
[2021-12-09 14:21:23] Startup - updater built Nov 22 2021 22:06:59
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1637624439)
[2021-12-09 14:21:23] Loading cached metrics from disk (/home/anon/.local/share/Steam/package/steam_client_metrics.bin)
[2021-12-09 14:21:23] Using the following download hosts for Public, Realm steamglobal
[2021-12-09 14:21:23] 1. https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
[2021-12-09 14:21:23] 2. https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com, /client/, Realm 'steamglobal', weight was 100, source = 'update_hosts_cached.vdf'
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/60-latin.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf", line 4: unknown element "description"
steamwebhelper.sh[6580]: Runtime for steamwebhelper: defaulting to /home/anon/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/steam-runtime-heavy
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for 8: -1: setpriority() failed
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for priority 8
Warning: support for elevated priorities is most likely unavailable, suppressing future warnings
Warning: failed to set thread priority: set failed for 8: -1: setpriority() failed
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1637624439)
CAppInfoCacheReadFromDiskThread took 61 milliseconds to initialize
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1637624439)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1637624439)
Proceed to auto login
Opted-in Controller Mask for AppId 0: 0

(steam:6514): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()

(steam:6514): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Materia/gtk-2.0/main.rc:756: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'

(steam:6514): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Materia/gtk-2.0/hacks.rc:28: error: invalid string constant "normal_entry", expected valid string constant

(steam:6514): libappindicator-WARNING **: Unable to get the session bus: Cannot spawn a message bus without a machine-id: Unable
process 6752: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed to open "/etc/machine-id": No
See the manual page for dbus-uuidgen to correct this issue.
roaming config store loaded successfully - 163 bytes.
migrating temporary roaming config store
BRefreshApplicationsInLibrary 1: 11ms
src/clientdll/appdatacache.cpp (2720) : !bSharedKVSymbols
src/clientdll/appdatacache.cpp (2720) : !bSharedKVSymbols
assert_20211209142125_17.dmp[6783]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20211209142125_17.dmp
src/clientdll/appdatacache.cpp (2720) : !bSharedKVSymbols
src/clientdll/appdatacache.cpp (2720) : !bSharedKVSymbols
assert_20211209142125_17.dmp[6783]: Finished uploading minidump (out-of-process): success = yes
assert_20211209142125_17.dmp[6783]: response: CrashID=bp-8a0832a3-23b4-4fc8-866a-060232211209
assert_20211209142125_17.dmp[6783]: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20211209142125_17.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-8a0832a3-23b4-4fc

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  • Post #2
Failed to open "/etc/machine-id" 
% sudo dbus-uuidgen --ensure
jean-michel wrote
Failed to open "/etc/machine-id" 
% sudo dbus-uuidgen --ensure
My hero! Worked like a charm. Today is a good day. Thank you.

I never had any issues with dbus before (other than what happens when you try to remove it), so that makes me wonder if there is something special about the way Obarun implements dbus. I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around this system...a lot of fun, though.

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Well, dbus implementation on Obarun is different than Arch, but appart that your issue is just the fact that there is nowhere a script that create the machine-id from a fresh installation. I'm going to inform eric about this issue.
Oh well in that case I am glad I had this issue since it will improve Obarun in the long run!

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:)

Could you please mark the thread as [closed] or [solved] now your issue is fixed, thx.

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