Game no longer launches after installing Steam on Ubuntu

I’ve been playing The Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) on Ubuntu for over a year, but ever since installing Steam, the game hangs on launching. I’ve been searching similar posts, but all I can find is to edit a single line in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lutris/util/steam/config.py. After the edit, the game launches and allows me to log in, but it never shows the game window (separate window than the login window). So the solutions I’ve found only get me halfway there.

I also just found out that the game runs fine when launching outside of Lutris by clicking the game icon.

Output of lutris --submit-issue:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/NQqXzNYShT/

Output of lutris -d:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/NkSrdjQwFS/

Hi,
Your Lutris is 0.5.9.1, current is 0.5.17+ - you should update so it can interact with Steam properly, and will also give you an updated runner.
Download and install the deb package, or if you prefer to use flatpak, do that. Or Git, if your Linux-fu is reasonable - anything other than the old version in the Ubuntu repo.

Oh, not sure why I didn’t update to begin with. Seems to be working now, thank you :slight_smile:

Two quick things:

  1. When installing the 0.5.17 deb, I got this message at the end:
    N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file ‘/home/luke/Downloads/lutris_0.5.17_all.deb’ couldn’t be accessed by user ‘_apt’. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

  2. The first time I tried the new version, it ran into the same issue where it allowed me to log in, but was unable to actually play. I saw you mentioned something about the runner, so I went in and swapped it from “lutris-7.2-2-x86_64” to “wine-ge-8-26-x86_64 (default)”. I needed to update anyway, but I wonder if I could’ve just swapped the runner in the old Lutris version and gotten it to work.

Thank you again for your help!

In regards to this message:
N: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file ‘/home/luke/Downloads/lutris_0.5.17_all.deb’ couldn’t be accessed by user ‘_apt’. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)

It looks like its because I installed the deb from my downloads folder and also isn’t an issue (more details here, if anyone is wondering).