Failing to launch on Mac

Hello,

I'm having trouble with Doc Clock on my Mac. I was running 10.5, and it didn't work. I tried upgrading to 10.6, and it still doesn't want to run. I do get an error message. It says 'Steam is not running or you do not own this game.'

I'm launching the game from steam, so the client is running at least. I am seeing the following in the console when it fails:

6/30/11 8:40:28 PM [0x0-0x50050].com.valvesoftware.steam[586] Failed to create Service pipe
6/30/11 8:40:28 PM [0x0-0x50050].com.valvesoftware.steam[586] Failed to connect to Steam Service
6/30/11 8:40:28 PM [0x0-0x50050].com.valvesoftware.steam[586] Failed to load Steam Service
6/30/11 8:40:28 PM [0x0-0x50050].com.valvesoftware.steam[586] ServiceStart: failed to start
6/30/11 8:40:28 PM [0x0-0x50050].com.valvesoftware.steam[586] Game update: AppID 57800 "Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time", ProcID 619, IP 0.0.0.0:0
6/30/11 8:40:29 PM [0x0-0x55055].Doc Clock - The Toasted Sandwich of Time[619] [S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; ipcserver init failed .
6/30/11 8:40:29 PM [0x0-0x55055].Doc Clock - The Toasted Sandwich of Time[619] [S_API FAIL] SteamAPI_Init() failed; unable to locate a running instance of Steam, or a local steamclient.dll.
6/30/11 8:40:37 PM [0x0-0x50050].com.valvesoftware.steam[586] Game removed: AppID 57800 "Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time", ProcID 619

Any Suggestions?

Thanks,
Eric

I found a work around.

If I run the command: /Applications/Steam.app/Contents/MacOS/osx32/ipcserver in the shell prior to launching steam the game works.

Thanks!

[ultramalakian]

Same issue here. Gonna try doing what you posted, hopefully I'll be able to play after that...
EDIT: It did!!! It fixed it! Thank you very much!
So... am I gonna need to do this every time I play?