Bug#705334: steam: fresh installation fails to start after initial update

[Nuutti Kotivuori]

Package: steam
Version: 1.0.0.33-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

I installed the steam package from the debian repository, pulling in the
required dependencies on libc6 and others from experimental as well.

After installation, I tried to start steam, but eventually encountered the
error "Fatal Error: Failed to load libsteam.so". I am posting the standard
output from the command here:

ILocalize::AddFile() failed to load file "public/steambootstrapper_english.txt".
[2013-04-13 10:59:30] uninstalled manifest found in /home/naked/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12.

[2013-04-13 10:59:30] Found pending update
[2013-04-13 10:59:30] Applying update...
[2013-04-13 10:59:30] uninstalled manifest found in /home/naked/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12.

[2013-04-13 10:59:30] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:30] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:30] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:30] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:30] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:30] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:31] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:31] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:31] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:32] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:32] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:32] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:32] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Installing update...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Installing update...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] BCommitUpdatedFiles: failed to create directory ./bin/shaders

[2013-04-13 10:59:33] BCommitUpdatedFiles: failed to update date ./bin

[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Failed to apply update, reverting...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Verifying installation...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Downloading Update...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Checking for available update...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Download Complete.
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] uninstalled manifest found in /home/naked/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12.

[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:33] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:34] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:34] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:34] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:34] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:34] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:34] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:35] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] Extracting package...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] Installing update...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] Installing update...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] BCommitUpdatedFiles: failed to create directory ./bin/shaders

[2013-04-13 10:59:36] BCommitUpdatedFiles: failed to update date ./bin

[2013-04-13 10:59:36] Failed to apply update, reverting...
[2013-04-13 10:59:36] uninstalled manifest found in /home/naked/.steam/package/steam_client_ubuntu12.

Needless to say, steam does not work. The problem may be that I am running
amd64. I do, however, have a working multiarch setup and am running many
i386 programs separately.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages steam depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.49
ii  gnome-terminal         3.4.1.1-2
ii  libc6                  2.17-0experimental2
ii  libgl1-mesa-dri        8.0.5-4
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx        8.0.5-4
ii  multiarch-support      2.13-38
ii  xterm                  278-4

Versions of packages steam recommends:
ii  zenity  3.4.0-2

steam suggests no packages.

-- debconf information:
* steam/question: I AGREE
* steam/license:
  steam/purge: