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Failed to load steamui.so: undefined symbol: va_fool_postp
Your system information
- Steam client version (build number or date): 1.0.0.74
- Distribution (e.g. Ubuntu): Debian Sid
- Opted into Steam client beta?: Yes
- Have you checked for system updates?: Yes
Please describe your issue in as much detail as possible:
On launch, steamui.so fails to load:
Failed to load steamui.so - dlerror(): /home/ratus5/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libva-x11.so.2: undefined symbol: va_fool_postp
I'm getting the issue after updating from mesa 22.1.0 to 22.1.3
Steps for reproducing this issue:
- Attempt to launch Steam
Hello @stuarthayhurst, while it's not clear to me why you've encountered this issue, you might be able to workaround this issue by installing the system variant of this library with something like sudo apt install libva-x11-2:i386.
Well that's got it running, thanks :D Was that just a missing dependency then, or an issue with the installed library?
Hello, I can confirm the same error. Right after updating to Libva 2.15.0 the error appeared. When you read the change log (https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.15.0), it seems va_fool support has been deprecated. I am no expert by any means, but I would guess that caused the issue for people who have recently updated their Libva to the latest version.
i had the same issue, i am running Ubuntu 22.10 (under development currently)..
Failed to load steamui.so - dlerror(): /home/MYUSERNAME/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libva-x11.so.2: undefined symbol: va_fool_postp
strange as libva-x11.so.2 is under steams control / delivered by steam itself.. maybe va_fool_postp is only called if steam believes the GPU supports it? So it was not caught during testing?
Same error on Ubuntu 22.04 here, using the bleeding edge Mesa PPA after an update to: 22.2~git2207061133.6ab2e1~oibaf~j
The same fix given above gets steam working again:
sudo apt install libva-x11-2:i386
Same issue but cannot get sudo apt install libva-x11-2 installed
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: libva-x11-2:i386 : Depends: libva2:i386 (< 2.14.0.1) but 2.15.0-1~oibaf~j is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
when i want to upgrade : sudo apt upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... Done Calculating upgrade... Done The following packages have been kept back: libegl-mesa0:i386 libgbm1:i386 libgl1-mesa-dri:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386 libglx-mesa0:i386 libosmesa6:i386 mesa-va-drivers:i386 mesa-vulkan-drivers:i386 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
well updated Ubuntu and Boom the same error
Failed to load steamui.so - dlerror(): /home/xxx/.steam/debian-installation/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libva-x11.so.2: undefined symbol: va_fool_postp```
I broke my system trying to fix this kUbuntu 22.04 .I re-installed kUbuntu 22.04 and updated system. Steam is working now. I think it has to do with the source list ppa:oibaf/graphics-drivers
Looking at https://launchpad.net/~oibaf/+archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers/+packages?field.name_filter=libva&field.status_filter=&field.series_filter=jammy, that PPA used to have a libva 2.15.0 build for Jammy, but it was removed. I would ppa-purge the PPA, and then re-add it.
Indeed, it was caused by oibaf ppa.
Solution:
You do not need to remove the ppa, i have solved it without!
sudo apt install --reinstall libva2:amd64=2.14.0-1 libva2:i386=2.14.0-1 libva-x11-2=2.14.0-1 libva-wayland2=2.14.0-1 libva-drm2=2.14 .0-1
strange as libva-x11.so.2 is under steams control / delivered by steam itself
Not entirely. The problem is that libva.so.2 and libva-x11.so.2 are meant to match, so the problematic situation here is if you have libva.so.2 on the host system (outside Steam's control), but not libva-x11.so.2. Steam needs to use whichever version of libva.so.2 is newer (choosing an older version could also cause crashes), and that will usually be the version from the host system - but if that doesn't match the libva-x11.so.2 provided with Steam, then you can get this crash.
Distributors can avoid this particular crash by making sure that their Steam packages pull in a system copy of both libva.so.2 and libva-x11.so.2 (at least 32-bit, but preferably 64-bit as well).
For users of Valve's steam-launcher package, a future update is likely to add a dependency on libva-x11-2:i386.
For users of Debian's steam package, version 1:1.0.0.74-2 fixes this.
For users of Ubuntu's steam package, I've opened https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/steam/+bug/1981355.
Hello @stuarthayhurst, while it's not clear to me why you've encountered this issue, you might be able to workaround this issue by installing the system variant of this library with something like
sudo apt install libva-x11-2:i386.
Yes, this actually fixed it.
For users of Valve's
steam-launcherpackage, a future update is likely to add a dependency onlibva-x11-2:i386.
I think it should included as dependency of steam-libs-i386.
Since that package recommends libva2:i386, make sense to add libva-x11-2:i386 to that as well.
Hello @stuarthayhurst, while it's not clear to me why you've encountered this issue, you might be able to workaround this issue by installing the system variant of this library with something like
sudo apt install libva-x11-2:i386.
worked for me too
this error occurred right after installing ffmpeg4 and ffmpeg5 from it's PPA
this error occurred right after installing ffmpeg4 and ffmpeg5 from it's PPA
Actually, I think the issue with ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg5 is unrelated to this.
For me, it was causing this error.
Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
I think there's no issue keeping ppa:savoury1/ffmpeg4. I simply removed the ffmpeg5 PPA.
I think it should included as dependency of steam-libs-i386. Since that package recommends libva2:i386, make sense to add libva-x11-2:i386 to that as well.
That was done in 1.0.0.75, which was shipped as a beta in July and re-released as stable in September (the "future update" that I mentioned in my previous comment was exactly the change you suggest here).
The remaining problems with this seem to be from people who have added PPAs that might be providing libva2 and libva-x11-2 for amd64 but not for i386. PPAs are unofficial and not a supported part of the main OS that you're running.
Debian/Ubuntu multiarch relies on identical versions being available for each architecture, and the Debian/Ubuntu packages for Steam (both Valve's packages and the distributions' packages) heavily rely on multiarch, so unfortunately it's easy for a PPA to accidentally break the ability to install a library for both architectures at the same time.
Same error on Ubuntu 22.04 here, using the bleeding edge Mesa PPA after an update to:
22.2~git2207061133.6ab2e1~oibaf~jThe same fix given above gets steam working again:
sudo apt install libva-x11-2:i386
Worked on 22.10, thank you!
Encountered the same issue when updating Ubuntu 22.04 from AMD based GPU to Intel based GPU using Intel's instructions to install Intel GPU.
Installing libva-x11-2:i386 fixed the issue.
I just recently updated all my libs locally, Ubuntu 22.4 AMD64, Newest Mesa ect. like other libva-x11-2:i386 fixed issues.
i had the same problem. I solved it by directly build-installing libva with a new release tag. https://github.com/intel/libva/releases/tag/2.18.0
