[2020] Unable to launch game via Steam on Linux

So you mean the launcher does not run, is that right? the games themselves are okay?

Has it ever worked on this machine? Or never yet?

What exactly do you see when it tries to run?

Please attach here the launcher logs:

• $XDG_DATA_HOME/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/logs/ (if $XDG_DATA_HOME is set)
• ~/.local/share/Paradox Interactive/launcher-v2/logs/ (if $XDG_DATA_HOME is not set)

 

Well that's bizarre as the launcher has not changed for weeks. The game went to 1.2.2 a few days ago though, did it coincide with that? Unlikely though that would be to affect the launcher.

Or was there an OS update that might have done it? But the launcher runs fine on my Ubuntu 20.04 installation and it's fully up to date ..... strange!

Ah - there was a Steam update at about that time too! did it coincide with that perhaps?  

I now have at least 10 reports in the last few days of the launcher not running under Arch Linux, across several games. As the launcher didn't change there must have been some Arch change or update to trigger this - is anyone here aware of such a thing happening?  

I've just had an update from another affected user:

After removing '~/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/pinned_libs_64/libcairo.so.2' the launcher starts again for me.
There's an issue open on the steam-runtime github

Can you see if that helps you too?