[Linux] The game cannot play the startup music on the Linux system

[notavaliablename]

Description

There is also this issue with Counter-Strike:Source. I have placed the startup music in the media folder, but after starting the game, there is no music. This problem does not exist on Windows.
In-game sound effects can play normally, but the game music cannot.
This issue may also exist on the Steam Deck running SteamOS.

Games with this issue

Games that have been tested and found to have this issue: Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, Counter-Strike: Condition Zero Deleted Scenes.

System

Kernel: Linux 6.10.9-200.fc40.x86_64
OS: Fedora Linux 40 (KDE Plasma) x86_64
Shell: bash 5.2.26
Pipewire: pipewire-1.0.7-2.fc40.i686
PulseAudio: not installed

[kisak-valve]

Hello @notavaliablename, the same as ValveSoftware/Source-1-Games#6346, this is most likely libMiles having a hard time with selinux. (#1515)

[rusted-bucket]

The recent update worsened the issue for TFC. It will now outright crash when choosing a class, and create a massive log file if console logging is enabled. Said log file almost entirely consists of "MP3 startup failed due, mp3 playback will not be available.", 700,000 times.

Allowing hl_linux execheap access doesn't really seem to fix the problem anymore. I have to switch to the pre-25th anniversary update for it to work.

[NukemD]

The only real solution to most of these bugs is to upgrade back to the steampipe release, away from the cancerous HL25 downgrade. We've been making bug reports for years that have gone unanswered, except for random tag shuffling that I can only assume is to on the surface make it look like something is being done, when nothing at all is actually happening.

I run Fedora like you and I made the mistake of trying the HL25 release. It completely trashed all of my mods and custom content, as well as corrupted my mapping profiles and configurations. It took me a week to revert back to the steampipe release, and I'll be staying on it forever.

HL25 was the single worst thing to ever happen to Half-Life, it has far eclipsed even the Steampipe release back in 2013 that also broke stuff, but nowhere to this degree. And back then we were on the far tail end of the modding community, so there were still at least a few people around that could fix stuff. They're long gone now.

All of this damage to the game just to get back a stupid retro WON splash screen and func_vehicle. Not worth it. At all.