Issues with starting stl on Steam Deck

[bkamphues]

Hey there, I've been experimenting with steamtinkerlaunch-v9.3.20220306 on the Steam Deck to install some mods with Vortex, but I'm having some difficulties running stl settings. Installing and running Vortex itself worked great, but when I try to open the main menu (either through the command line or through the KDE shortcut) I get the following error:
/usr/bin/steamtinkerlaunch: line 5156: : command not found

Taking a look at that line it seems as though it's a problem with yad, but I haven't found a solution yet.

I've tried installing through both the AUR and manually. Both seem to install fine...

Thanks in advance!

[frostworx]

Hi there,
good to hear that steamtinkerlaunch (even with Vortex) basically works on the SteamDeck (don't have mine yet).
Please upload a logfile, so I can (try to) debug this further (I hope the immutable system or some unknown valve customization doesn't conflict here)

[bkamphues]

Included are logs for no ID and Skyrim Special Edition. I should mention that I disabled the read-only filesystem to install it in the first place.

31337.log
489830.log

[frostworx]

thx for the logs. Unfortunately nothing suspicious here (the "ERROR" is simply wrong and should be removed, but is not related), so there is nothing I can do for now.

I can order my reserved Deck in Q2, but RL (summer) will prevent me from longer private computer sessions when I get it, so no idea when this can be fixed from my side.
I'll leave this open anyway, maybe someone is willing to look into this already before.

[bkamphues]

Alright, thank you for taking a look! My personal theory after taking a look at that line is that $YAD is not being found/used. I tried looking where that variable gets initialised, but couldn't find it. Maybe that contains a clue?

[frostworx]

$YAD is defined by default in this line:
https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch/blob/master/steamtinkerlaunch#L2375
which in turn will be written into your
~/.config/steamtinkerlaunch/global.conf
(I hope both ~ and /dev/shm/ are writable without any workarounds/tweaks required)

so when command -v "yad" works for you in a terminal, it should be also found from steamtinkerlaunch.

edit: if you want to test if it is really found from within steamtinkerlaunch, you could for example add
command -v "yad" > /tmp/test.txt
before the main "$@" [line](https://github.com/frostworx/steamtinkerlaunch/blob/master/steamtinkerlaunch#L18506)
(maybe also env > /tmp/env.txt has some interesting env variables(?))

[bkamphues]

Alright, so I did both your suggestions. First thing I noticed, VIM/Nano/GNU Editor wouldn't let me edit it directly in /usr/bin because it had 'Too many symbolic links'. Which is weird, because the file properties don't show it being a symlink. Copied it over to my home folder and ran and edited it from there. The test.txt shows exactly what running it in the terminal does, but I still get that error. I found nothing weird in the env either. Eager to figure this out once you'll get your steam deck!

[frostworx]

thanks for the quick test! I'm curious as well where this ends :)

[frostworx]

#431

[frostworx]

fyi: #437