[2.1.7] Factorio is not responding when launching game

[TRekt]

Since I switched to experimental, I can no longer launch the game. When I click `Play` in Steam, a Factorio window appears but the entire process in not responsive, even waiting several minutes does not help. So I have to terminate the process.

I deleted whole `.factorio` directory just to be sure, but without success.

There is my log:

factorio-current.log

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This is what I see

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Here are some information about my system

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== System ==
OS:
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 21.1"

Kernel:
Linux ondrej-XPS 5.15.0-181-generic #191-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 22 19:09:02 UTC 2026 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

== Hardware ==
CPU:
Model name:                              Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz

RAM:
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            15Gi       7,7Gi       354Mi       1,3Gi       7,3Gi       6,0Gi
Swap:          2,0Gi        35Mi       2,0Gi

== GPU ==
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)

== OpenGL ==
OpenGL vendor string: Intel
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.4

== Display Server ==
XDG_SESSION_TYPE: x11
DESKTOP_SESSION: cinnamon
WAYLAND_DISPLAY: 
DISPLAY: :0

== Drivers ==
Mesa (likely AMD/Intel):
OpenGL version string: 4.6 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 23.2.1-1ubuntu3.1~22.04.4

There is also screenshot from htop

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If you need more information, feel free to ask

[Loewchen]

Sounds like 134100.

[Prommah]

Yeah. Even if it's not the same issue (nobody in the other thread even got a window to show up AFAIK) you'll probably run into the issue in that thread anyway. It looks like Mint 21.1 is based on Ubuntu 22.04 which has glibc 2.35, while Factorio 2.1.7 needs at least 2.36.

[TRekt]

Thanks for linking the issue and thanks for pointing out that glibc version issue. I tried launching Factorio directly from bash and it actually printed out this:

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/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.36' not found (required by ./bin/x64/factorio)

Upgrading my whole system resolved the issue. It is a bit unfortunate that we don't get to see this message when lauching it directly from Steam.