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I'm having problems getting Steam to start. I've reinstalled several times, using various methods, but to no avail, and the problem is the same every time.

After it's installed, it brings up the login window as usual, and I enter my username and password, and click login. It goes through the "Connecting to account.." window and the "Updating Steam platform..." window, and then it disappears, and nothing happens (it appears to have just quit itself, as all the .exe processes end).

I didn't see this problem anywhere else in the forum, so I was wondering if anyone else had it, or if there was a way I can work towards fixing it.

Edit: it appears there was another thread about this. I'll try what was mentioned in that thread.

Your hardware and OS would be nice.

Also, when the window disappears, does the Steam.exe process also disappear?

I tracked down the problem. I'd updated the nvidia drivers, so the versions didn't match up properly. Restarting the X server fixed the problem.