Nixpkgs: Steam does not run on 18.03 and unstable

[chris-martin]

$ steam
cp: cannot create regular file '/home/chris/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz': Permission denied
Running Steam on nixos 18.03pre131308.12a88b2c518 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /steamrt
Pins potentially out-of-date, rebuilding...
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/nix/store/8k63fwbsxagp0j6wp56didl838ikrsqi-steam-fhs/steamrt/pinned_libs_32’: Read-only file system
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/nix/store/8k63fwbsxagp0j6wp56didl838ikrsqi-steam-fhs/steamrt/pinned_libs_64’: Read-only file system

$ nix-shell -p nix-info --run "nix-info -m"
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 4.15.0, NixOS, 18.03pre131308.12a88b2c518 (Impala)`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `no`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.0`
 - channels(root): `"nixos-17.09pre107265.0afb6d789c"`
 - channels(chris): `"release-17.09-17.09, release-18.03-18.03pre131308.12a88b2c518, unstable, nixos-17.09-17.09.2281.b4a0c011e81"`
 - nixpkgs: `/home/chris/nix/path/nixpkgs`

[chris-martin]

Somehow a reboot fixed this. I have no idea why.

[wchresta]

I ran into a similar issue. I have steam installed from 17.09. Running steam in 18.03 gives:

cp: cannot create regular file '/home/wchresta/.local/share/Steam/bootstrap.tar.xz': Permission denied
Running Steam on nixos 18.03.132268.5f16ba8fb0f 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME has been set by the user to: /steamrt
/home/wchresta/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 755: /home/wchresta/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: No such file or directory

• system: "x86_64-linux"
• host os: Linux 4.4.131, NixOS, 18.03.132268.5f16ba8fb0f (Impala)
• multi-user?: yes
• sandbox: yes
• version: nix-env (Nix) 2.0.1
• channels(wchresta): ""
• channels(root): "nixos-18.03.132336.ef74cafd3e5, nixos-unstable-18.09pre140440.e86be6919ad"
• nixpkgs: /nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixos/nixpkgs

And a reboot doesn't fix it ;)

[logann2019]

Note for the walkers: I had this issue because i had a /lib directory on the root.
fix: mv /lib to /lib2 ...

[wchresta]

@logann2019 I love you