Steam will not load after update

[aaronm04]

I had Steam/TF2 working. Using Suse 11.1 64-bit, Nvidia card/driver, 4Gb RAM, 2.6 Intel Quad CPU. ALSA sound (pulse audio uninstalled), Windows Vista, full settings in winecfg. My TF2 crashed and when I started Steam again, the Steam update downloaded and installed. Then Steam wouldn't start any more.

I tried a new .wine dir. Followed instructions for removing/reinstalling Steam. Nada. So I got patient and awaited some Wine updates. I had wine 1.1.16 at the time and now even with 1.1.18, Steam will still not load. Here is what I get:

aaron@destro:~> wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe
fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub.
CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . .
fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 5, 0x00000002, 1, stub
fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 10, 0x00000002, 1, stub
CellID: CSDS returned 159 servers.
CellID: Connecting to 193.34.51.3:27031. . .
CellID: Connect to 193.34.51.3:27031 took 150 MS
CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 16 MS
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0xc26fd4 "?" wait timed out in thread 0023, blocked by0024, retrying (60 sec)
Deleting active MRSW lock (0x115204), expect failure
aaron@destro:~>

I'm completely lost. Anyone have any ideas. I posted in the Steam forums in the AppDB and had a few who experienced similar problems. Anyone know of a fix. I searched and have come up empty.

Any help or a general direction as to the nature of the problem would be greatly appreciated.


Aaron

[vitamin]

aaron@destro:~> wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Steam/Steam.exe

Not correct way to start app. Correct: http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-8d8c06c ... 5c730566e0

Make sure Wine is not running, remove ClientRegistry.blob from Steam directory, start Steam again.

[aaronm04]

Thanks for the suggestions!

Tried the 'wine steam.exe'. No dice.

Removed the ClientRegistry.blob file. Ran steam again. It updated and got the 26% crash and told me a copy was already running. Started Steam again. It completed the update and tried to start. It came back with the same error as before:

"aaron@destro:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam> nice -n 19 wine Steam.exe

fixme:process:SetProcessShutdownParameters (00000100, 00000000): partial stub.
CellID: Fetching server list from CSDS. . .
fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 5, 0x00000002, 1, stub
fixme:urlmon:CoInternetSetFeatureEnabled 10, 0x00000002, 1, stub
CellID: CSDS returned 161 servers.
CellID: Connecting to 68.142.81.3:27031. . .
CellID: Connect to 68.142.81.3:27031 took 55 MS
CellID: Nothing beat our old best time of 17 MS
err:ntdll:RtlpWaitForCriticalSection section 0xc2705c "?" wait timed out in thread 0023, blocked by0024, retrying (60 sec)
Deleting active MRSW lock (0x1151cc), expect failure
aaron@destro:~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Steam>"

I used the 'nice' command based on some info on the Steam appdb page and got, as you can see, the same error. I had gotten the same error prior to that w/o the 'nice' command.

I should also mention that I also tried the 'chattr' command that is suggested to fix the 'Steam Already running' error. After doing so, I tried deleting the blob file again and got the same error above.

What else can I try?

Thanks a bunch


Aaron

[vitamin]

It updated and got the 26% crash and told me a copy was already running

Did you really made sure it really wasn't running? Also have you tries all workarounds from AppDB?