Games won't download, stuck on creating local game cache files

[ucanbaklava]

Every time I hit cancel, it locks up Steam.I've tried changing my download location, deleting the blob file, reinstalling Steam, none of it works.I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 64 bit

Processor Information:
Vendor: AuthenticAMD
Speed: 3400 Mhz
4 logical processors
4 physical processors
HyperThreading: Unsupported
FCMOV: Supported
SSE2: Supported
SSE3: Supported
SSSE3: Supported
SSE4a: Supported
SSE41: Unsupported
SSE42: Unsupported

Network Information:
Network Speed:

Operating System Version:
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS (64 bit)
Kernel Name: Linux
Kernel Version: 3.2.0-37-generic
X Server vendor: The X.Org Foundation
X Server release: 11103000

Video Card:
Driver: NVIDIA Corporation GeForce 9500 GT/PCIe/SSE2

Driver Version:  1.4 (2.1.2 NVIDIA 310.32)
Desktop Color Depth: 24 bits per pixel
Monitor Refresh Rate: 60 Hz
VendorID:  0x10de
DeviceID:  0x640
Number of Monitors:  1
Number of Logical Video Cards:  1
Primary Display Resolution:  1920 x 1080
Desktop Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Primary Display Size: 18,78" x 10,55"  (21,54" diag)
                                        47,7cm x 26,8cm  (54,7cm diag)
Primary Bus: PCI Express 16x
Primary VRAM Not Detected
Supported MSAA Modes:  2x 4x 8x 16x 

Sound card:
Audio device:

Memory:
RAM: 3952 Mb

Miscellaneous:
UI Language: English
LANG: tr_TR.UTF-8
Microphone: Not set
Total Hard Disk Space Available: 51320 Mb
Largest Free Hard Disk Block: 33157 Mb

Installed software:

Recent Failure Reports:
Fri Feb 8 19:24:26 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130208212423_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-1bb4ab62-dbb5-416e-b929-3fddd2130208''
Fri Feb 8 20:44:22 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130208224419_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-9b582add-6938-4c52-9e5e-807562130208''
Fri Feb 8 20:45:51 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130208224547_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-7f141007-3447-410a-a870-cce9a2130208''
Fri Feb 8 20:48:06 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130208224759_2.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-eeedcce3-bed3-4970-bb2a-0c83e2130208''
Fri Feb 8 20:49:37 2013 GMT: file ''/tmp/dumps/assert_20130208224933_1.dmp'', upload yes: ''CrashID=bp-0fa25821-3504-4501-a118-3be382130208''

[ucanbaklava]

after update its still continuing

[Majkl578]

How long does it take or how long did you wait before cancelling it? IIRC it's preallocating the space so it can take some time on slow HDDs.

[ucanbaklava]

it took forever

[ucanbaklava]

it seems files created but did nothing.still stuck on creating local game cache files

[ucanbaklava]

that issue happens when downloading games which have .gcf files