If Steam suddenly stops to work....

[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:

1:
in a terminal:

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killall steam

2:
remove the appcache folder:

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sudo rm -Rf ~/.steam/steam/appcache

3
start steam again

That is it

Don't ask me why it broke in the first place though....

[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?

[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

[dedanna1029]

I understand that. I'm just trying to figure how it could interfere with steam.

[viking60]

[dedanna1029]

It's what you seemed to be inferring in your OP here, which is why I asked the questions I did.

[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