I run two PC’s with AMD GPU’s and with the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, I have been unable to run steam using the default grpahics drivers that come with steam. Clicking the steam icon, just made it flash for a little bit, but steam never started. To get more detail, I tried running steam from the command-line, and I got the following error message:

jordan@jordan-H8DI3:~$ steam
Running Steam on ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
/bin/bash: /home/jordan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /bin/bash)
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
grep: symbol lookup error: grep: undefined symbol: pcre_jit_stack_alloc
awk: /home/jordan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam-runtime/amd64/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: no version information available (required by /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libreadline.so.6)
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(1468023329)
libGL error: unable to load driver: radeonsi_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: radeonsi
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
^C
jordan@jordan-H8DI3:~$

I had to hit CTRL+C in order to get out of it. After some research, I was able to get steam running with the following command:

LD_PRELOAD='/usr/$LIB/libstdc++.so.6' DISPLAY=:0 steam

I haven’t tried a lot of games through steam after starting this way, but the ones that I did try have run just fine… so far.