Some Steam games won't start up, gameoverlayrenderer.so error

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I'm using an Intel HD Graphics card.

For the last few days, for an unknown reason, some Steam games won't start up, including Half-Life and Garry's Mod.

Here's the shell output with Half-Life:

Game update: AppID 70 "Half-Life", ProcID 28160, IP 0.0.0.0:0  
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/s0/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.  
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/s0/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.  
pid 28164 != 28163, skipping destruction (fork without exec?)  
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/s0/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.  
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/s0/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.  
Generating new string page texture 399: 128x256, total string texture memory is 3,84 MB  
Using breakpad crash handler  
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 70  
Forcing breakpad minidump interfaces to load  
Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient  
Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit  
Looking up breakpad interfaces from steamclient  
Calling BreakpadMiniDumpSystemInit  
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Caching Steam ID:  76561198056430718 [API loaded yes]  
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID:  Setting Steam ID:  76561198056430718  
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/s0/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_64/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64): ignored.  
assert_20150621233104_1.dmp[28171]: Uploading dump (out-of-process)
/tmp/dumps/assert_20150621233104_1.dmp  
/home/s0/.local/share/Steam/SteamApps/common/Half-Life/hl.sh : line 38 : 28166 Segmentation fault  (core dumped) ${DEBUGGER} "${GAMEROOT}"/${GAMEEXE} $@   
Game removed: AppID 70 "Half-Life", ProcID 28166

I've tried removing all the Steam Runtime libraries, but nothing changed.

have you tried disabling the steam overlay for these games - right click in your library on the game - go to properties, then uncheck - enable the steam overlay while in game. — Mateo, Jun 22 '15 at 00:29
Yeah, did not work. Same with globally removing it. It also caused more problems (alt+tab would crash TF2 for example). — , Jun 22 '15 at 13:58

score -3 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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You need the 32 bit libGL drivers (libgl1-mesaa-dri:i386).

You can issue this command via terminal,

sudo apt-get install libgl1-mesa-dri:i386

If you already have it, try reinstalling,

sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgl1-mesa-dri:i386

Restart your computer and try again.

If that doesn't work, check out this: Error loading libGL.so.1

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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answered Jun 21 '15 at 21:52

woahguy

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Are you sure? It's not talking about libGL.so.1 in the log... – Jun 22 '15 at 00:36
ld.so is a part of the libGL. – woahguy Jun 22 '15 at 01:07
The other link did not help either, as the "best choice" for libGL.so.1 is already picked. – Jun 22 '15 at 22:38
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ld.so is the dynamic linker. It has nothing specific to do with libGL. – ams Nov 21 '15 at 19:44
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@woahguy ld.so is the dynamic linker as ams points out. – demented hedgehog Dec 24 '15 at 00:40

Some Steam games won't start up, gameoverlayrenderer.so error

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