Steam vr troubleshooting

See also steam vr performance.

Home won't Start

SteamVR > Restart Headset

Logs

Some issues with SteamVR are caused by missing libraries, or directories.

Some examples

./vrwebhelper: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6: undefined symbol: hb_ot_tags_from_script_and_language

./vrwebhelper: error while loading shared libraries: libcef.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Failed to change directory in process '/home/will/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/tools/steamvr_environments/game/bin/steamtours': 2

Failed to execute process '/home/will/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/tools/steamvr_environments/game/bin/steamtours': 2

It could be helpful to redirect output to a logfile, and tail with grep.

steam 2>&1 > steam.log
tail -f steam.log | grep -i -o 'vrwebhelper' -o 'failed' -o 'error' -o 'symbol'

# Now launch steamvr, and watch for errors. You can always fall back on the log.

Console

- launch steam from console and it will log there
- modify SteamVR's launch command to open and execute from a terminal.

UI

Logs available from UI using

SteamVR > Create System Report:
  - Logs tab

Unable to contact Mongoose

• doesn't seem to be firewall
• doesn't seem to be dnsmasq
• validated steamvr