Bug#954960: steam: new steam update crashes with fatal error: could not load steamui.so

[Ximin Luo]

Ximin Luo:
> Ximin Luo:
>> Package: steam
>> Version: 1.0.0.61-2
>> Severity: important
>>
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> The latest Steam client upgrade fails to run, crashing with a dialog box saying:
>>
>>    Fatal Error: Failed to load steamui.so
>>
>> There's no other details unfortunately.
>>
> 
> In $STEAMDIR/error.log we see:
> 
> Failed to load steamui.so - dlerror(): /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_log_structured_standard
> 
> Launching /usr/games/steam with STEAM_RUNTIME_PREFER_HOST_LIBRARIES=0 works around this problem for now.
> 

I spoke a little too soon. steam launches but the main content panels are all black. However, "Big Picture" (full screen) mode works - right click the steam tray icon and select "Big Picture".

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