At some point within the last few days, it may have been the day I ran system updates, my Steam library of installed games appeared much smaller than normal. When I went to start up a particular game, the button in Steam said to "Install" it instead of "Play" it. I went into the Steam library settings and it showed that two of my library folders had 0 games installed. I can access these drives at their normal paths outside of Steam normally and read/write files. The games are there. So I tried to remove the two broken library folders and re-add them. But now Steam won't even populate any folders under my home directory. That's where the drives are mounted, so I can't add them to Steam. What's weird is one of the drives did not break even though it is mounted with the same config in fstab, has the same folder permissions, and also lives in my home directory. It doesn't make sense.





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.



Last edited by 14 on 14 Feb 2021 at 4:30 pm UTC