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I am suddenly unable to launch steam or any steam titles in Ubuntu 14.04. If I try to launch from the console I get 

> Running Steam on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled
> automatically

Then the process immediately exits and I get no further output. I've been searching around but most other posts regarding steam not launching involve actual errors being reported to the console.

I tried removing and purging my steam installation, then I reinstalled from the latest .deb on the steam website.

There was no change in behavior.

David Foerster
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I wound up running

steam --reset

That got the the steam client to launch again and load the ui. It did show the following errors but continued loading

This might be helpful though. I just ran steam --reset and then tried again. Now I am actually getting some errors

You are missing the following 32-bit libraries, and Steam may not run:

    libv8.so
    libSDL2-2.0.so.0
    libXtst.so.6
    libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
    libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
    libavcodec.so.56
    libavformat.so.56
    libavresample.so.2
    libavutil.so.54
    libswscale.so.3

It's possible I'll run into some other issues down the road as a result, but that gets me past the initial issue for this ticket. Hope this helps someone else.

Chris Wininger
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