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If Steam suddenly stops to work....
Posted: 14 Sep 2013, 18:33
by viking60
I spent a lot of time getting my Skype to work and finally after I was finished I had lost my steam.
The process started and used a lot of CPU but nothing fired.
So after some research i found a magical fix:
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in a terminal:
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remove the appcache folder:
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sudo rm -Rf ~/.steam/steam/appcache3
start steam again
That is it
Don't ask me why it broke in the first place though....
Re: If Steam suddenly stops to work....
Posted: 14 Sep 2013, 19:31
by dedanna1029
What version of skype did you install and on what distro? What's in the repos, or from the skype site? I've always found that installing the tarball from the skype site to /home/youruser is best. It makes a diff, believe me.
If you do this, and then make both a main and subfolder to install the tarball to (extract it to the sub-folder), then it shouldn't interfere with anything, unless there's graphical conflicts.
Did you happen to try it from terminal with both going? Errors?
Re: If Steam suddenly stops to work....
Posted: 14 Sep 2013, 19:57
by viking60
In Manjaro from AUR.
Skype works. The problem is all those USB Cameras with microphones on my main box. On my Arch laptop it works perfectly.This is about Steam though
Re: If Steam suddenly stops to work....
Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 02:51
by dedanna1029
I understand that. I'm just trying to figure how it could interfere with steam.
Re: If Steam suddenly stops to work....
Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 08:57
by viking60
Re: If Steam suddenly stops to work....
Posted: 18 Sep 2013, 20:23
by dedanna1029
It's what you seemed to be inferring in your OP here, which is why I asked the questions I did.
Re: If Steam suddenly stops to work....
Posted: 20 Sep 2013, 12:32
by b1o
Probably the same thing that happens on windows from time to time, if the ClientRegistry.blob file is located in the appcache folder that would explain it
