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#1 Yesterday 16:56:12

yurimodin
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Registered: 2025-06-09
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Steam is being problematic without SystemD

I know its probably a me problem but Steam and even Heroic Launcher have been a real issue lately from not having udev. Steam did not even want to start from Flatbak or Native.

I dualboot distros so I have been on Devuan for a long time but I just setup Debian on my other drive for now because of this.

Any other gamers in here that have any pointers for me?

FYI I am running Cinnamon(Xorg) and Nvidia proprietary drivers from the repos on both installs.

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#2 Yesterday 21:14:03

tux_99
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Registered: 2025-06-17
Posts: 164  

Re: Steam is being problematic without SystemD

yurimodin wrote:

have been a real issue lately from not having udev

But udev is available in Devuan.

$ ps -ef|grep udev
root       475     1  0 12:44 ?        00:00:01 /sbin/udevd --daemon
$ apt list udev
udev/stable 1:3.2.9+devuan4 amd64
udev/stable 1:3.2.9+devuan4 i386

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#3 Today 00:34:02

Mercury
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Registered: 2024-11-14
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Re: Steam is being problematic without SystemD

What actual issue or error are you seeing?

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#4 Today 15:35:10

yurimodin
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Registered: 2025-06-09
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Re: Steam is being problematic without SystemD

What actual issue or error are you seeing?

Mostly stuff fails to open. Then when you try it from terminal you get a bunch of errors about udev sessions or mismatches. Usually a reboot fixes it but its odd. That is what Heroic was doing. Steam flat out refused to run after a few errors no matter what I did.

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#5 Today 16:08:25

chris2be8
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Registered: 2018-08-11
Posts: 388  

Re: Steam is being problematic without SystemD

Please post a copy of the error messages you are getting. And a list of exactly which "stuff" fails to open. That might give us enough information to work out what's wrong.

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#6 Today 17:16:55

yurimodin
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Registered: 2025-06-09
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Re: Steam is being problematic without SystemD

Sorry it was dbus not udev

Heroic

~$ flatpak run com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl 

bwrap: Can't find source path /tmp/dbus-CBeNqz22Wh: No such file or directory 

Steam

Exit code: 0

Saving response to: /tmp/steamDEmHFJ - 105 bytes

steamwebhelper.sh[17511]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/mark/.steam/debian-installation/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

steamwebhelper.sh[17511]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/mark/.steam/debian-installation/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

x86_64-linux-gnu-capsule-capture-libs: warning: libsystemd.so.0 has an unexpected DT_SONAME, ignoring: libelogind.so.0

Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 18442

steam-runtime-launcher-service[18442]: E: Can't find session bus: Could not connect: No such file or directory

i386-linux-gnu-capsule-capture-libs: warning: libsystemd.so.0 has an unexpected DT_SONAME, ignoring: libelogind.so.0

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

pressure-vessel-wrap[17511]: W: Disabling gtk3-nocsd LD_PRELOAD: it is known to cause crashes.

bwrap: Can't find source path /tmp/dbus-7aaYNAIIPe: No such file or directory

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 18442 exited

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.

Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 20595

steam-runtime-launcher-service[20595]: E: Can't find session bus: Could not connect: No such file or directory

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 20595 exited

Steam Runtime Launch Service: starting steam-runtime-launcher-service

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service is running pid 22507

steam-runtime-launcher-service[22507]: E: Can't find session bus: Could not connect: No such file or directory

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service pid 22507 exited

Steam Runtime Launch Service: steam-runtime-launcher-service keeps crashing on startup, disabling

steamwebhelper.sh[27493]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/mark/.steam/debian-installation/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

steamwebhelper.sh[27493]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/mark/.steam/debian-installation/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

x86_64-linux-gnu-capsule-capture-libs: warning: libsystemd.so.0 has an unexpected DT_SONAME, ignoring: libelogind.so.0

i386-linux-gnu-capsule-capture-libs: warning: libsystemd.so.0 has an unexpected DT_SONAME, ignoring: libelogind.so.0

pressure-vessel-wrap[27493]: W: Disabling gtk3-nocsd LD_PRELOAD: it is known to cause crashes.

bwrap: Can't find source path /tmp/dbus-7aaYNAIIPe: No such file or directory

steamwebhelper.sh[5262]: Starting steamwebhelper under bootstrap steamrt steam runtime via: /home/mark/.steam/debian-installation/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

steamwebhelper.sh[5262]: Starting steamwebhelper with steamrt steam runtime at /home/mark/.steam/debian-installation/steamrt64/pv-runtime/steam-runtime-steamrt/_v2-entry-point

x86_64-linux-gnu-capsule-capture-libs: warning: libsystemd.so.0 has an unexpected DT_SONAME, ignoring: libelogind.so.0

i386-linux-gnu-capsule-capture-libs: warning: libsystemd.so.0 has an unexpected DT_SONAME, ignoring: libelogind.so.0

pressure-vessel-wrap[5262]: W: Disabling gtk3-nocsd LD_PRELOAD: it is known to cause crashes.

bwrap: Can't find source path /tmp/dbus-7aaYNAIIPe: No such file or directory

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