[BUG] Arch Linux - error 300: "A key component of SteamVR isn't working properly. Please verify that SteamVR is properly installed."

[eyeonus]

Describe the bug StreamVR opens with the error message in the title, will not launch any VR applications.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Install SteamVR by selecting the "INSTALL" button in the library Launch SteamVR by any method (including but not limited to clicking the VR headset icon, clicking "LAUNCH" in the SteamVR Library entry, or executing steam steam://rungameid/250820 from terminal) Get the error message

Expected behavior SteamVR launches without error.

System Information (please complete the following information): Please use the latest Steam beta client and SteamVR beta for your bug reports!

• Steam client version (build number or date): Steam Beta Branch: Stable Client Steam Version: 1715891371 Steam Client Build Date: Thu, May 16 14:11 UTC -08:00 Steam Web Build Date: Thu, May 16 13:36 UTC -08:00 Steam API Version: SteamClient021

• SteamVR version: Occurs on Stable, Version 2.5.5 (1715637367) and Beta, Version 2.6.1 (1715301904)

• Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Arch Linux lspci.log

• Steam runtime diagnostics: [generate via Help -> Steam Runtime Diagnostics in the Steam client] steam-runtime-diagnostic.log

• Steam and SteamVR logs: [generate by running this command in a terminal tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-logs.tar.gz ~/.steam/steam/logs] steam-logs.tar.gz

• Minidumps: [run the following command: tar -zcvf ~/Desktop/steam-minidumps.tar.gz /tmp/dumps] steam-minidumps.tar.gz

[eyeonus]

Same problem with: Steam Beta Branch: Steam Beta Update Steam Version: 1716072097 Steam Client Build Date: Sat, May 18 14:33 UTC -08:00 Steam Web Build Date: Sat, May 18 16:25 UTC -08:00 Steam API Version: SteamClient021

[colrobloxkid69420]

any update on this?

[GarraBlanca2003]

i have the same issue

[jaimu97]

Also running into this issue.

KDE Plasma 6.2.5 on Linux 6.6.72-1-lts (Arch Linux) CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

lsusb | grep -i "valve" > usb.txt lspci

Happening on version 2.8.8 (1733790165) and version 2.9.5 (1736284931)

[swagelynn]

Same here.

Arch x86_64 Gnome Wayland (Although the same thing happens on x11) CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

[swagelynn]

For me, this occurs whenever a proton VR game crashes; SteamVR will then show the error until the system is fully restarted (killing all wine processes and restarting steam has no effect)

[VirtualBirdLabs]

This started happening to me as well, regardless of wether i start steamvr on its own or with ALVR. i cant recall any changes ive made to my arch install that would cause any issue with steamvr, but here we are OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: 6.13.6-arch1-1 DE: Plasma 6.3.3 [KF 6.11.0] [Qt 6.8.2] (wayland) WM: kwin_wayland_wr CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D (16) @ 3.6GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

[MrMineO5]

I got this error, I recommend looking for a rogue vrserver process, e.g. using ps -aux | grep vrserver and killing it if one exists, that fixed it for me.

[swagelynn]

I got this error, I recommend looking for a rogue vrserver process, e.g. using ps -aux | grep vrserver and killing it if one exists, that fixed it for me.

Interesting, i'll check if this works next time it crashes

[swagelynn]

I got this error, I recommend looking for a rogue vrserver process, e.g. using ps -aux | grep vrserver and killing it if one exists, that fixed it for me.

I can confirm this works!