Error Codes
Common
SteamCMD can sometimes output errors when something goes wrong. Sadly Valve has never released an official list of what the error messages mean. Because of this, a lot of guesswork has been needed to figure it out. This page will highlight what we already know and info on researching what the error might mean in the hope that you can contribute to understanding SteamCMD errors.
SteamCMD uses hexadecimal numbers to give its current "state". Every time SteamCMD does something it changes its state. When SteamCMD fails it will output its has hexadecimal state, for example
0x202.Seems to affect HLDS based servers. Running again often fixes the issue
Error! App '90' state is 0x10E after update job.
Reason | Error! App '90' state is 0x10E after update job. |
Hex | 0x10E |
Decimal/StateFlags | 270 |
content_log_0x10E.txt
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Not enough disk space.
Error! App '<appid_number>' state is 0x202 after update job.
Reason | Not enough disk quota |
Hex | 0x202 |
Decimal/StateFlags | 514 |
content_log_0x202.txt
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Text
Unknown error, if you have any details please let us know
Error! App '<appid_number>' state is 0x206 after update job.
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Reason | |
Hex | 0x206 |
Decimal/StateFlags | 518 |
Missing content_log.txt if you have experienced this error and have a log please let us know.
Not enough disk space.
Error! App '<appid_number>' state is 0x212 after update job.
Title | Title |
Reason | Not enough disk space |
Hex | 0x212 |
Decimal/StateFlags | 530 |
content_log_0x212.txt
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Text
Connection issue with steam, you will need to wait for the steam servers to recover.
Error! State is 0x402 after update job.
Reason | Connection issue |
Hex | 0x402 |
Decimal/StateFlags | 1026 |
Missing content_log.txt if you have experienced this error and have a log please let us know.
Unknown error, if you have any details please let us know
Error! State is 0x602 after update job.
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Reason | |
Hex | 0x602 |
Decimal/StateFlags | 1538 |
Missing content_log.txt if you have experienced this error and have a log please let us know.
SteamCMD is unable to write to the disk. Normally caused by permissions issues. This issue was discovered when a directory that was linked using symlink did not have the correct permissions to allow SteamCMD to write to it.
Error! App '<appid_number>' state is 0x606 after update job.
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Reason | Disk write failure |
Hex | 0x606 |
Decimal/StateFlags | 1542 |
content_log_0x606.txt
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Error! App '<appid_number>' state is is 0x2 after update job.
Reason | |
Hex | 0x2 |
Decimal/StateFlags | 2 |
Missing content_log.txt if you have it please let us know.
No connection to content servers.
Error! App '<appid_number>' state is 0x6 after update job.
Reason | No connection to content servers |
Reason 2 | Received 401 (Unauthorized) HTTP response for depot 11 |
Hex | 0x6 |
Decimal/StateFlags | 6 |
content_log_0x6.txt
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content_log_0x6-2.txt
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Update state (0x3) reconfiguring, progress: 0.00 (0 / 0)
Update state (0x5) validating, progress: 13.48 (1554089956 / 11530459441)
Update state (0x11) preallocating, progress: 8.53 (983870089 / 11530459441)
Update state (0x61) downloading, progress: 1.11 (127644881 / 11530459441)
Update state (0x101) committing, progress: 3.43 (395043827 / 11530459441)
To get more info and output see the SteamCMD logs in
~/.local/share/Steam/logsor ~/.steam/logs. The most useful log is content_log.txt that will provide more information on errors.If you have experienced an error we don't have logs for please provide them to us to assist in diagnosing the issue.
SteamCMD uses hex error codes such as
0x202 which can be converted into decimal 514. You can use a hex-to-decimal converter to do this. Using the table below you can work out the status messages. By doing a calculation. Find the highest number below the state 512 which is the first error. Then take the number away from the total 514-512=2 which gives you the last error. This can be done for any error514-512-2=0512 StateUpdateRunning , 2 StateUpdateRequiredStateInvalid | 0 |
StateUninstalled | 1 |
StateUpdateRequired | 2 |
StateFullyInstalled | 4 |
StateEncrypted | 8 |
StateLocked | 16 |
StateFilesMissing | 32 |
StateAppRunning | 64 |
StateFilesCorrupt | 128 |
StateUpdateRunning | 256 |
StateUpdateRunning | 512 |
StateUpdateStarted | 1024 |
StateUninstalling | 2048 |
StateBackupRunning | 4096 |
StateReconfiguring | 65536 |
StateValidating | 131072 |
StateAddingFiles | 262144 |
StatePreallocating | 524288 |
StateDownloading | 1048576 |
StateStaging | 2097152 |
StateCommitting | 4194304 |
StateUpdateStopping | 8388608 |
This table is from 2015 and is probably outdated now but it's the best we currently have.
./steamcmd.sh: line 17: ulimit: open files: cannot modify limit: Operation not permitted
Some users may get a ulimit error (no permission/cannot open file) while SteamCMD is starting up. This error caused by a low setting of the -n parameter (number of file descriptors) of ulimit. Some servers forbid increasing ulimit values after startup (or beyond a limit set by root). This can be fixed by changing the file descriptor number ulimit:
ulimit -n 2048
The Steam account being used does not have a license for the required game.
The password for the branch is incorrect.
Ignore the error, do not do anything to attempt to fix it. It is a known error that has appeared ever since SteamPipe was introduced. It does not cause any issues and can be ignored.
Ignore the error, do not do anything to attempt to fix it. It does not cause any issues and can be ignored.
Ignore the error, do not do anything to attempt to fix it. It does not cause any issues and can be ignored.
Ignore the error, do not do anything to attempt to fix it. It does not cause any issues and can be ignored.
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