Steam crashes upon log in - OS X 10.11.3

[Yoyo]

Just got my new MacBook. I'm trying to install the vital applications, one of which is steam.

When I launch steam and log in, it simply closes. No error or crash report- nothing. I've tried googling, but have found little to nothing that has proved to be helpful.

Any suggestions other than "use windows lol"?

 

[Kinsman]

Reinstall? Just wipe it and re-DL?

I mean, that's all I have to offer.

 

[SweetandSour]

https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/626329821090492445/

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2645647

Try deleting the registry.blog and restart steam?

 

[Yoyo]

I'm looking in the steam package contents in the MacOS folder and I can't seem to find the clintregistery.blob file.

 

[toastmatic]

don't worry yoyo ill help you through this troubling time

i dont use mac but unix/linux is p much the same thing and ill give you basic troubleshooting from that perspective

first off, try launching as root through terminal.

sudo steam // (or the path to steam if that doesn't work; you'll need to enter your root or superuser password)

if that works, we can just modify the RWE on the launcher so you can boot it without that trouble later on

if not, see if there are any error messages printed; if there are, paste them here.

if you dont see anything there and if /var/log/syslog is a thing in mac, open it up and look for anything made by the steam executable. type:

cd /var/log/syslog //changes working directory to sys error dumps
ls -t //lists files in date created order
cat nameoffirstlogfile //reads the most recent logfile.

if you find anything paste it here and we'll go from there.

 

[peacetalks]

also something that might help is do a clean reinstall and wipe steam appdata whatever its called on mac

man if i could i'd just use linux 5ever 2 bad most games arent supported on it yet