Bug#722741: steam: latest steam doesn't start

[Andres Cimmarusti]

Package: steam
Version: 1.0.0.39-2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

After accepting Steam's latest updates, the client refuses to start on my Debian 
testing machine

Here's the output when trying to run steam from konsole:

$ steam &
rm: cannot remove ‘/home/candres/.steam/steam’: Is a directory
rm: cannot remove ‘/home/candres/.steam/bin’: Is a directory
Running Steam on debian  64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
[2013-09-13 17:04:54] Startup - updater built Sep  6 2013 12:04:22
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1378500910_client)
Looks like steam didn't shutdown cleanly, scheduling immediate update check
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1378500910_client)
[2013-09-13 17:04:54] Checking for update on startup
[2013-09-13 17:04:54] Checking for available updates...
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1378500910_client)
[2013-09-13 17:04:55] Download skipped: /client/steam_client_ubuntu12 version 1378500910, installed version 1378500910
[2013-09-13 17:04:55] Nothing to do
[2013-09-13 17:04:55] Verifying installation...
[2013-09-13 17:04:55] Performing checksum verification of executable files
[2013-09-13 17:04:55] Verification complete
unlinked 0 orphaned pipes
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3717 with name 0eBlobRegistryMutex_20E98110CF5CC37EC036E9AA3B21E735
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3717 with name 0eBlobRegistrySignal_20E98110CF5CC37EC036E9AA3B21E735
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3717 with name 0emSteamEngineInstance
removing stale semaphore last operated on by process 3717 with name 0eSteamEngineLock
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1378500910_client)
[0913/170456:WARNING:proxy_service.cc(958)] PAC support disabled because there is no system implementation



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (175, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8.13.9-desktop.1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages steam depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.51
ii  libc6                  2.17-92+b1
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri        9.1.6-2
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx        9.1.6-2
ii  libstdc++6             4.8.1-2
ii  libx11-6               2:1.6.1-1
ii  libxau6                1:1.0.8-1
ii  libxcb1                1.9.1-3
ii  libxdmcp6              1:1.1.1-1
ii  multiarch-support      2.17-92+b1
ii  xterm                  295-1

Versions of packages steam recommends:
pn  zenity  <none>

steam suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* steam/license:
* steam/question: I AGREE
  steam/purge: