Steam only starts on the first run

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I am new to NixOS, but I’ve used linux extensively, sadly not for gaming.

Steam is playing up, I knew from the beginning that it is not the most straight forward process, but I didn’t expect weird unexplainable hickups. It starts fine on the first run, but after quitting, it I can’t get it to open, running it from the CLI does not wield to many information:

steam.sh[20416]: Running Steam on nixos 23.05 64-bit
steam.sh[20416]: STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
setup.sh[20494]: Steam runtime environment up-to-date!
run.sh[20507]: Warning: An unexpected error occurred while executing "/sbin/ldconfig -XNv", the exit status was 127
steam.sh[20416]: Steam client's requirements are satisfied

ldconfig -XNv

ldconfig: Path `/nix/store/46m4xx889wlhsdj72j38fnlyyvvvvbyb-glibc-2.37-8/lib64' given more than once
(from <builtin>:0 and <builtin>:0)
ldconfig: Can't stat /nix/store/46m4xx889wlhsdj72j38fnlyyvvvvbyb-glibc-2.37-8/libx32: No such file or directory
/nix/store/46m4xx889wlhsdj72j38fnlyyvvvvbyb-glibc-2.37-8/lib: (from <builtin>:0)
        libnss_files.so.2 -> libnss_files.so.2
        libresolv.so.2 -> libresolv.so.2
        ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 -> ld-linux-x86-64.so.2
        libBrokenLocale.so.1 -> libBrokenLocale.so.1
        libnss_db.so.2 -> libnss_db.so.2
        libm.so.6 -> libm.so.6
        libmemusage.so -> libmemusage.so
        libnsl.so.1 -> libnsl.so.1
        libpthread.so.0 -> libpthread.so.0
        libpcprofile.so -> libpcprofile.so
        libdl.so.2 -> libdl.so.2
        libmvec.so.1 -> libmvec.so.1
        libnss_dns.so.2 -> libnss_dns.so.2
        librt.so.1 -> librt.so.1
        libc_malloc_debug.so.0 -> libc_malloc_debug.so.0
        libanl.so.1 -> libanl.so.1
        libutil.so.1 -> libutil.so.1
        libnss_hesiod.so.2 -> libnss_hesiod.so.2
        libnss_compat.so.2 -> libnss_compat.so.2
        libc.so.6 -> libc.so.6
        libthread_db.so.1 -> libthread_db.so.1

I am uncertain about the GLIBC issue. Maybe that is already the issue I am facing, but I dont necessarily think so, as I dont think it is different on first start.

Is there somethign I am missing?

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After restarting my computer and starting it from the CLI the first time, it became apparent that some part didn’t close down properly. I’ll update the post once more if I find the reason for it to not quit completely.

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Same happened to me, sometimes when I open steam it gives that message and some games wont launch, closing it and opening again fixes it.

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Do you install steam with programs.steam.enable or environment.systemPackages = [ pkgs.steam ];? The former is how you’re supposed to install steam on NixOS, it solves some issues.

If that’s not it, I’d expect this is a steam bug.

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I do use the programs.steam.enable to install steam.