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Using a rolling distribution like Arch is good in many ways but when things you really need start to break it is not so fun. I have had some problems with steam - a thing I really need in order to play games! (Yes - priorities are rightly ordered!) Apparently steam comes with a couple of libraries that sooner or later will become older than the once installed in the OS. My error looks like this:

Running Steam on arch rolling 64-bit STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1467926999) libGL error: unable to load driver: i965_dri.so libGL error: driver pointer missing libGL error: failed to load driver: i965 libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

After googling for quite a while and trying a couple of things I stumbled upon this problem solver. It made sense to me directly. The post is essentially one line:

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6 /usr/lib32/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib32/libxcb.so.1 /usr/lib32/libgpg-error.so' steam

LD_PRELOAD is a way to load some objects before others. In this case we tell steam to use these 4 libraries instead of its own. Problem solved and I can move on to more important things currently as the King of Finland in the Crusader Kings year 987. I am about to turn this tribe into a merchant republic!