Steam vr troubleshooting
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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': 2Try redirecting logs, and tailing with a line-numbered filter.
# starting in console and watching logs is most dependable source of errors # logs exist in ~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/Steam/logs but NOT EVERY ERROR is logged steam | grep -i -e 'vrwebhelper' -e 'failed' -e 'error' -e 'symbol'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