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As you can see, the Steam dialog does not see that my home dir has any sub folders. If I tell it to create a new folder and type in an existing folder, it will err and say it already exists! You know, maybe that will be my backup workaround -- I'll tell Steam to create a new folder and then move my Steam files into it. I wonder if it will still say 0 games though.
- My home directory has 700 permissions and no special acl.
- The drives (both working and not working in Steam) are mounted in fstab as ext4 and "defaults" for options.
- Running Arch Linux and Plasma.
- Steam is installed from the normal Arch repo, not flatpak.
I have rebooted multiple times. I reinstalled Steam over itself. I tried another kernel version. I don't get it.
EDIT:
When trying to install a game, Steam suggests adding a library folder to the missing drives. So it knows they're mounted there.
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Last edited by 14 on 14 February 2021 at 4:30 pm UTC
So, what's the deal. There is something with old versus new folders in my home path. I have compared permissions, umask, attributes, extended attributes, and encoding. I have blown away everything Steam related and reinstalled it. Doesn't help.
This means I should have a workaround. I can comment out my mounted drives in fstab, reboot, recreate the folders they're mounted to, re-enable them in fstab, then reboot again. That should fix this issue. But why does that work? Why is only Steam affected? What caused this? The ideas I have are rsync and borg backups run as root. I also cloned my system drive (with home dir) long ago using dd when I upgraded my drive.
I have a little more details in this Github issue post that was not really the same issue as the OP but it was the same issue as one of the commenters.