Bug#860950: steam: crashes on startup

[Michael Gilbert]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:04 AM, Clayton wrote:
> [2018-02-18 12:50:27] Cleaning up...
> [2018-02-18 12:50:27] Update complete, launching...
> [2018-02-18 12:50:27] Shutdown tar: This does not look like a tar
> archive xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
> tar: Child returned status 1
> tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
> find: ‘/home/user/.steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime’: No such file or
> directory

This looks like an incomplete download.  Try backing up your
ubuntu12_32 folder, and execute steam again.

If that works, the script will need to try to clean up after a failed download.

Best wishes,
Mike