I finally took the time to move my gaming rig to Bazzite because I don’t boot it that often, and because I don’t want to spend half the little time I have for gaming doing updates and maintenance.
Most of my games are on an ext4-formatted secondary drive. Note: They worked perfectly on Manjaro and Nobara, the previous distros I used on this machine.
They are recognized by Steam, I can install and uninstall games just fine, it’s just that… they don’t launch. At all. Native or Proton. Like if I was on an exFAT partition. The “Launching” button switches back to “Play” almost instantly. If I move a game to my main home partition, it launches fine.
Has anyone encountered this issue before?
Where/how could I get detailed logs to try and pinpoint the issue?
Thanks!
Edit:
Solved! The issue was with fstab configuration, always specify exec AFTER users, despite the doc telling you that order doesn’t matter ;)
Wrong fstab entry :
UUID=blah-blah-blah /my/mount/point ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail,auto,exec,users,rw 0 2
Proper fstab entry (it’s subtle):
UUID=blah-blah-blah /my/mount/point ext4 defaults,noatime,nofail,auto,users,exec,rw 0 2
Another person already linked to how to get proton to spit out logs, but you can also start steam from a terminal, which then lets you see what error messages steam itself might be spitting out when you try to run a game.
Just close steam, open a terminal window, and type in “steam”.
Last time I checked, Proton logs included things that did not appear in normal terminal output, so you might want to do both. (That was years ago, though; things might have changed since then.)
Absolutely, these are two entirely different logs.
Good call. I’m seeing some stuff I don’t like, I’ll investigate tomorrow.