steam black screen on all except library[closed]

Shadow_Fury · Last edited by Shadow_Fury on Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:08 pm; edited 1 time in total

i'm having issues with steam.

all the tabs except the downloads tab appear black.

it was working before i recently updated my system.

i tried rolling back the video drivers to stable, which didn't do anything ( i'm using nvidia drivers).

any help is appreciated.

Fulgurance · Veteran Joined: 15 Feb 2017 Posts: 1200

Ah finally ! I'm not alone with this problem, thanks you !

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1139926.html

Shadow_Fury · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:25 pm Post subject:

as a bypass to play your games, you can use big picture or small mode, those seem unaffected

Shadow_Fury · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2021 2:49 pm Post subject:

after a bit of reading i found this: steam uses a customized version of the chromium browser,
maybe a recent update broke something chromium relies on?

rowenmatt · n00b Joined: 31 Jul 2021 Posts: 2

Shadow_Fury · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2021 1:35 pm Post subject:

possibly related to this?

https://bugs.gentoo.org/769989

chromium seems broken when compiled with glibc 2.33.

i don't know if this would affect steam's browser, but perhaps an SO it relies on breaks with glibc 2.33

this is the best lead i have found.

hedmo · Veteran Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 1305 Location: sweden

downgrade freetype and you are good to go

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Shadow_Fury · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2021 2:08 pm Post subject:

hedmo · Veteran Joined: 29 Aug 2009 Posts: 1305 Location: sweden

Shadow_Fury · Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2021 3:45 pm Post subject:

freetype 2.11.0-r1 doesn't work either, mask it with

dartleader · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Apr 2019 Posts: 118

Downgrading freetype did not work for me: I still have blank, black screens for everything except 'Downloads' - which also worked before the downgrade.

Oddly enough, it worked on my laptop. Does anyone have any other recommendations?

EDIT: My mistake - I forgot to also mask 2.11.0-r1.

Irets · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2019 Posts: 222

Hey,
Can someone give me a hand in figuring out why I'm still getting only-offline-mode & black screen in Steam?
I don't think my question is worth it's own thread so I'll use this one, if that's okay. It's the exact same topic after all.
Today a new update hit Steam which broke it for me.
Earlier I was able to get past this issue by moving from Steam Beta to stable.

I've added

telmo · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2021 Posts: 9 Location: Portugal

Chiitoo · Posted: Fri Sep 10, 2021 11:51 pm Post subject: ><)))°€

Output from running Steam could help. It should at least confirm if it's the 'gnome-extra/zenity' issue or not [1].

1. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-runtime/issues/458
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Irets · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2019 Posts: 222

telmo, I'm still facing the issue.
I have been flipping through various github issues-pages related to this but haven't found a fix yet.

Chiitoo, here's the output of me opening & closing Steam (Public Beta) on freetype-2.10.4.

Irets · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2019 Posts: 222

Okay, this is getting ridiculous.
I was able to temporarily ""fix"" the issue by running emerge --oneshot net-print/cups.
I found the source of the issue by inspecting steamwebhelper.log.

Chiitoo · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2021 11:19 am Post subject:

Ah, I did not expect the cups issue to result into that "everything's just black" symptom as well. I had seen it, but didn't mention it yet since I was guessing it would just make Steam refuse to run at all instead.

I think Steam has required it at least since they started using Google's CEF nonsense for everything, possibly before, and they do already bundle it in the Steam runtime so if users disabled the runtime, they'd need to have system-cups instead (if I remember right-like). And yes, it's always fun when something wants printing software when the machine will never ever even have a printer in the same room with it...

Indeed, the Freetype issue should now be fixed.
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telmo · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2021 Posts: 9 Location: Portugal

FIXED! thanks to everyone on this thread! i also got it fixed with the latest freetype.
here's what i run /got everything from all of you ty/

sudo emerge --oneshot net-print/cups

sudo emerge --ask gnome-extra/zenity

as soon as i started steam it started unpacking stuff and updating as well, now everything is working.

thank you!

edit: sorry im new to this forums and i still dont know how to properly edit the code etc.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21619

telmo · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2021 Posts: 9 Location: Portugal

Honestly I really love Steam and Valve for all the effort they been putting into our Linux community but damn, sometimes they really mess up with our mental health huh...

Not to mention sometimes in others distros Steam is also installed with some libraries and/or dependencies missing and when you try to launch Steam it will give you an error but they still don't create a help page. But that's a different topic.

Irets · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2019 Posts: 222

Hu, I agree with you.
I was tired, grumpy and was almost certain that Freetype was screwing me over, not cups.
I'll take your advice and follow it more closely in the future.
Sorry for making a mess.

telmo, you will probably want to add cups to your world file for the time being, so it doesn't get removed by depclean by accident and end up with a broken Steam again.
That can be achieved with emerge --ask --noreplace net-print/cups.
Maybe, just maybe we can get rid of it again in the future if Steam decides to bundle the library.

telmo · n00b Joined: 19 Aug 2021 Posts: 9 Location: Portugal

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21619

Irets · Apprentice Joined: 17 Dec 2019 Posts: 222

Hu, that makes sense.
Thanks for clearing that up.