Steam Will Not Update AssertPreCondition

[HostDome]

For some reason steam is giving me this error no matter what commands I pass to it. The search feature seems down since it isnt working for me. Has anyone found a fix to this problem?

root@metro [~]# ./steam
Checking bootstrapper version ...

AssertPreCondition
Name: NonNullFilePath
Expr: !sFile.empty()
Line: 334
File: ../../../Common/Misc/FileUtil.cpp
Aborted


But it runs under a different user. Any reason why? It used to work no problem and works on all of my other servers.

Running RHL 9

root@metro [/home/hostdome]# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.1
Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


root@metro [/home/hostdome]# ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.3.2
Copyright © 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.


Linux metro.hostdome.com 2.6.5-grsec #12 SMP Sun May 23 00:40:35 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux