steam and ubuntu 13.10

[Israel]

sorry I said Paul, but that is you, I mean NikTh's solution

On 11/25/2013 04:43 PM, Paul Sutton wrote:
> On 25/11/13 22:38, Israel wrote:
>> I am not, but I could test it out for you.
>> My 2 first guess would be missing dependencies (somewhat unlikely since
>> it runs on many non Unity platforms) and some sort of issue with your
>> graphics card.
>> Now my 2 questions.  Have you tried it in another DE and it works, just
>> not in Lubuntu (I assume your answer is no)
>> And do you have a graphics card that requires some sort of proprietary
>> blob to work right (since you are using steam, I would tend to think
>> 'yes' here, as steam is for games and GPUs are for games)
>>
>> You might generally include more hardware info when reporting bugs, but
>> aside from that I would try to search the internet for your specific
>> graphics card and steam (I suggest using duckduckgo.com or ixquick.com
>> as opposed to google... but that has nothing to do with this issue... :)
>>
>> Let us know what you find.  If it is your graphics card, please report a
>> bug using ubuntu-bug steam and post your info there with the solution
> I recently upgraded from a clean install of 13.04 to 13.10.  so it
> worked fine before upgrade on that as I installed it soon after
> installation.  How do I make sure I am actually using the proper nvidia
> drivers.  application called additional drivers,  which i can't seem to
> find, told me if they were enabled.
>
> I know things get disabled during upgrades.
>
> Paul
>
>> On 11/25/2013 04:10 PM, Paul Sutton wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> Anyone using steam on Lubuntu 13.10
>>>
>>> Just fired up steam and it came up with an error that it was unable to
>>> connect and goto steam powered for more info. I decided to type steam on
>>> a terminal window to see what is sent to the console
>>>
>>> psutton at e-machines:~$ steam
>>> Running Steam on ubuntu 13.10 32-bit
>>> STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> [1125/220308:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(646)] PAC support disabled because
>>> there is no system implementation
>>> Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line
>>> 70: non-double matrix element
>>> Fontconfig error: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line
>>> 70: non-double matrix element
>>> Fontconfig warning: "/etc/fonts/conf.d/10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf", line
>>> 78: saw unknown, expected number
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> Generating new string page texture 2: 48x256, total string texture
>>> memory is 49.15 KB
>>> Generating new string page texture 3: 256x256, total string texture
>>> memory is 311.30 KB
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> roaming config store loaded successfully - 677 bytes.
>>> migrating temporary roaming config store
>>> Adding license for package 0
>>> Installing breakpad exception handler for
>>> appid(steam)/version(1364601080_client)
>>> Generating new string page texture 4: 128x256, total string texture
>>> memory is 442.37 KB
>>> Generating new string page texture 5: 512x256, total string texture
>>> memory is 966.66 KB
>>> Generating new string page texture 6: 24x256, total string texture
>>> memory is 991.23 KB
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>>
>>> (steam:9136): LIBDBUSMENU-GLIB-WARNING **: Trying to remove a child that
>>> doesn't believe we're it's parent.
>>> unlinked 2 orphaned pipes
>>> CAsyncIOManager: 0 threads terminating.  0 reads, 0 writes, 0 deferrals.
>>> CAsyncIOManager: 139830 single object sleeps, 0 multi object sleeps
>>> CAsyncIOManager: 0 single object alertable sleeps, 1 multi object
>>> alertable sleeps
>>> [2013-11-25 22:03:06] Startup - updater built Mar 29 2013 11:40:39
>>> [2013-11-25 22:03:06] Verifying installation...
>>> [2013-11-25 22:03:06] Verification complete
>>> Shutting down. . .
>>> [2013-11-25 22:03:51] Shutdown
>>> psutton at e-machines:~$
>>>
>>>
>>> any suggestions based on the above,   not sure if some of the errors are
>>> due to loading up in a terminal window or point to other things.
>>>
>>> I am using Lubuntu 13.10
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
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