Nixpkgs: Steam doesn't run ("libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast")

[chris-martin]

> steam
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/chris/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz': Permission denied
Running Steam on nixos 17.03.git.32d6569b62 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /steamrt
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1493162727)
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

NixOS 17.03

Hardware:

• Intel NUC NUC6i7KYK
• Intel Iris Pro Graphics 580

[lheckemann]

Did you enable the 32-bit OpenGL option as documented in the manual?

[chris-martin]

Yes - This is my config https://github.com/chris-martin/home/blob/a08b6c1683719e23c1ee27b295b07b852a950afe/nix/os/cubby.nix

[lheckemann]

This looks pretty wrong to me, could you check the permissions on .local/share/Steam?

cp: cannot create regular file '/home/chris/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz': Permission denied

I also don't think it should be using the swrast driver at all... But no idea if the two issues are related.

[chris-martin]

.local/share/Steam is 0700, but Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz is 0444

[vcunat]

Steam has been spitting this permission line for me as long as I can remember, without experiencing any actual problems.

[vcunat]

I think trying swrast is typically a symptom of driver problems. SW rasterization is often not feasible in (3D) games anyway.

[vcunat]

BTW, steam seems fine on my micro-desktop with i7-6700T on NixOS-17.03. (I don't run everything on the same nixpkgs commit.)

[qrvaelet]

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [ (steam.override { newStdcpp = true; }) ];

With the above line it's working fine with mesa drivers.

[chris-martin]

@qrvaelet Thank you, that workaround is working!

[MP2E]

Hi there, just wanted to state that I have had the same issue with Steam on my Lenovo Thinkpad X240 with an Intel integrated gpu, but do not see this issue on my desktop which uses the proprietary Nvidia drivers.

The workaround stated above makes steam run perfectly on my laptop

[polendri]

Add one more to the list of people for whom @qrvaelet's suggestion worked like a charm after a reboot; I was getting a "Pins potentially out-of-date, rebuilding..." message followed by some "read only filesystem" errors as Steam tried to modify a Nix store path. This is on an XPS 13 2-in-1 i5-7Y54.

[chris-martin]

I have no idea whether this is a related issue, but might as well mention it, I guess. With the newStdcpp = true; workaround applied to get Steam to launch, this is what happens when I then try to launch Civ VI:

An unrecoverable error has occurred, and Civilization VI cannot continue.

[srhb]

If someone could test and review #29180 -- particularly if you're using a dedicated setup, that would be grand.

[Mic92]

was merged.