Having a video playing/paused when switched to another user generates gigabytes of error logs

[Ian]

To replicate:

1. Start a video playing, for example in vlc. 'avcodec decoder: Using NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 418.56 Fri Mar 15 12:31:51 CDT 2019 for hardware decoding'

2. Optionally pause it.

3. Switch to another user.

The original user's ~/.xsession-errors will rapidly fill up with errors along the lines of "vdpau_chroma filter error".

At the same time, errors are put in /var/log/syslog as well:

[00007f9d604810a0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007f9d604810a0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007f9d604810a0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
(repeat ad nauseum)

At least one of the two will rapidly fill up its partition and problems will arise.

With AMD video hardware and driver, the video continues playing - you can hear the sound despite being in the other user.

[Ian (superian)]

Once you return to the original user, the video screen will be black and playback will not restart without stopping the player entirely.

[Noam Mor (noam-mor)]

My /var/log/syslog currently has about 240GB of the following line:

    Oct 4 17:53:32 noam-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[3124]: [00007f9fa8021120] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

I had VLC open, with a video paused, for about a day. I found out I have this issue when space ran out on / .

I'm using Nvidia drivers version 430.40 on Ubuntu 18.04. Unlike the original poster of the bug, I did not switch to another user. I did however change my resolution - I manually change the resolution from 4k to 1080p for streaming movies and change it back to 4k to do other things.

I suspect that the faulty situation appears when I VLC is started in one resolution and then the resolution is changed. I will test further.

[Ian (superian)]

There aren't any problems when vlc is playing audio and displaying cover art - I suspect this is whenever something using the hardware video acceleration gets in a twist and changing resolution could well do that.

[Bernard Banko (beernarrd)]

I have simmilar issue, but linked to nautilus. Cannot find what caused it, might be user swithcing also.:

org.gnome.Nautilus[10750]: [00007f6e9001c640] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ian (superian)]

Also affects nvidia-graphics-drivers-435:

Nov 14 11:41:16 example org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[2306]: [00007f8c34467c70] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

[rrfx (rrfx)]

Same here. Paused VLC and CTRL+ALT+F1'd to a console. NVIDIA driver 435.21:

tail -f ~/.xsession-errors
[00007f2304091470] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007f2304091470] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
[00007f2304091470] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

[NounouRs (sandburg)]

It fills not only /var/log/syslog but also /var/log/messages and /var/log/user.log
It grows very quick up to the disk limit.

[Ian (superian)]

~/.xsession-errors can also get Quite Big.

[Nikolai (nicolas-minec)]

Same here. My syslog fills up of
"Thunar.desktop[3491]: [00007f0ee436b700] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided."
lines at a rate of hundreds of MB per minute, until the system partition is entirely full.

If I do "sudo truncate -s 0 /var/log/syslog", then I have a few minutes during which I can send emails again, for example, but other than that, the system partition is 100% full and many operations are therefore impossible.
This started happening after I bought a slightly less antiquated GPU for my comp.
The NVidia X server setting app shows no problem, though.

[Nikolai (nicolas-minec)]

Oh, I just realized the flow stops when VLC stops when I stop VLC, and it doesn't appear with other video players, so it's more a VLC problem, and a workaround is simply to remove VLC and use a non buggy player instead.

[Ian (superian)]

Mmm, I think the issue isn't that VLC is buggy, but that it's using the native drivers in a way that less capable players :) are not: what acceleration does MPV use, for example?

See other 'switch away from one user / display and the thing crashes' bugs. VMware workstation player crashes if you're using the vmware additions to get accelerated graphics merely by switching, for example.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrew Nyago (nyxee)]

my /var/log/syslog.1 is the one getting filled up by this problem.
I also get rsyslog using up a lot of the cpus.
and i get the computer fans screaming.
when i stop VLC, rsyslog stops running and the computer fans cool down.
SAMPLE LOG:
Jan 11 14:44:56 nyHOU org.gnome.Nautilus[1692]: [00007f3bf0091150] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 11 14:44:56 nyHOU org.gnome.Nautilus[1692]: [00007f3bf0091150] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 11 14:44:56 nyHOU org.gnome.Nautilus[1692]: [00007f3bf0091150] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 11 14:44:56 nyHOU org.gnome.Nautilus[1692]: [00007f3bf0091150] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 11 14:44:56 nyHOU org.gnome.Nautilus[1692]: [00007f3bf0091150] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 11 14:44:56 nyHOU org.gnome.Nautilus[1692]: [00007f3bf0091150] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan

[Krzysztof Janowicz (janowicz)]

I am here to confirm the same issue. In my case, HOWEVER, minimizing and pausing VLC is all it needs to generate thousands of these so rapidly that I run into issues:

Jan 21 08:27:40 pop-os vlc.desktop[2389]: [00007f4cf4092ce0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 21 08:27:40 pop-os vlc.desktop[2389]: [00007f4cf4092ce0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

I am using NVIDIA 440.44 running Ubuntu 19.10 (in fact Pop!_OS) on a GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2.

Thanks a lot for looking into this.

[Ian (superian)]

Krzysztof - just from pausing or minimising it? No user switching or screen alterations?

I can pause and minimise without getting that so long as I do not switch users.

[Michal Polovka (miskopo)]

I also confirm this issue - it happens even with only paused minimized VLC, no need to switch users

[Ian (superian)]

Accidentally switched while a vlc video was paused, went '$%^&' and switched back, stopped the video (i.e. the black screen).

On my system, syslog gets so many errors doing that, it grows by roughly 111,652 lines or 20,990,575 bytes per second!

[Moss Mosserson (superkey)]

Here to confirm issue (only seen with VLC) as well. Writes to ~/.xsession-errors until disk is full, which on this NVMe SSD takes seconds.

Occurs without user switching. Not seeing it in syslog as some people are reporting - for those users, did you disable xsession-errors somewhere?

Had to work around disk space issue by adding link to /dev/null on each log in, similar to https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=1559886&sid=61ae05bb0f18ec819664dde96f6fd7e6#p1559886

When this occurs, VLC process still takes 100% CPU and must be restarted, but at least disk isn't full.

[Ian (superian)]

Still present in the nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 package, sigh.

To reproduce, it's still as simple as "Start playing a video with VLC in user #1, switch to user #2 for a couple of seconds, switch back to user #2 to see a black screen in VLC and hundreds of megabytes of error messages in the logs". It still doesn't happen with VLC in a PC with an AMD card doing the graphics acceleration.

Syslog:

Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: [00007f6ead8e1730] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: [00007f6ead8e1730] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

(those two repeated at least 90,000 times a second)

Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: [00007f6ead8e1730] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: video surface destruction failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: message repeated 3 times: [ video surface destruction failure: An invalid handle value was provided.]
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: [00007f6ead8e1730] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: [00007f6ead8e1730] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: [00007f6ead8e1730] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch org.mate.panel.applet.MateMenuAppletFactory[5505]: video surface destruction failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch kernel: [ 842.264228] show_signal_msg: 40 callbacks suppressed
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch kernel: [ 842.264230] vlc[5545]: segfault at 8c ip 00007f6ea7908be0 sp 00007f6ea991f338 error 4 in libnvidia-glcore.so.440.64[7f6ea6a2a000+12de000]
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch kernel: [ 842.264236] Code: fa ff 48 8b 05 c1 50 e0 00 48 83 c0 10 48 89 45 00 48 8b 5c 24 08 48 8b 6c 24 10 48 83 c4 18 c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 <66> 83 bf 8c 00 00 00 00 b8 01 00 00 00 75 20 30 c0 f6 87 8a 00 00
Apr 19 12:21:14 punch systemd[1]: Starting Process error reports when automatic reporting is enabled...
Apr 19 12:21:18 punch whoopsie[1727]: [12:21:18] Parsing /var/crash/_usr_bin_vlc.1000.crash.
Apr 19 12:21:18 punch whoopsie[1727]: [12:21:18] Uploading /var/crash/_usr_bin_vlc.1000.crash.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[jacj (atralb)]

Similar issue with nvidia driver 440.82.

However, on my end, the issue appears when vlc is open and reads from an external mounted drive : suspending the computer then waking up, the drive is not mounted anymore this is when the /var/log/syslog is written gigs of those same lines in just minutes.

[Edwin Kerforne (edkerforne)]

Same as jacj on NVIDIA driver 440.64: when opening VLC, reading a video from a mounted drive, suspending the computer and then waking it up, /var/log/syslog starts rapidly filling with hundreds of thousands of these errors and gets the fans spinning real loud. On a SSD especially, any available space is taken up very quickly.

For me this doesn't seem to fill up .xsession-errors or any other file, "only" /var/log/syslog.

Closing VLC stops this behavior instantly.

[Balint Pap (marlyna)]

I also experienced the same issue using Ubuntu 18.04 and VLC 3.0.8 version. (Nvidia-driver-435)
I was not able to reproduce the same issue with another media player.

[indigocat (indigocat)]

It also happens with driver nvidia-340 in Ubuntu 18.04 / elementaryOS 5.1.3

[indigocat (indigocat)]

#25 - it happens when suspending the laptop, then resuming.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[nathanpingpong (nathanpingpong)]

Same as jacj and Edwin. With 440.64 Nvidia driver with Ubuntu 20.04

[Aaron Lichtman (alichtman)]

I have the same problem on Ubuntu 20.10 using 440.100 driver. VLC + Thunar on a single user system fills up the syslog.

[Ali Akbar (aliakbar09a)]

The same thing happens with nvidia-driver-410.104 while using VLC

[MK (publicemaildump751-deactivatedaccount)]

7GB in my case. I am the only user, but what I do in a rare case is put the computer into Suspend mode.
Truly stupid behavior, to fill up a log with 7GB+++ of same error, without ever showing an on-screen notification to a user (ONLY ONCE PLEASE, NOT SEVEN BILLION NOTIFICATIONS), ASSUMING this error has any significance to the user whatsover.

Yes, Linux suspend behavior needs polishing. Video does not resume, etc, etc, etc. I only use it on a rare forced need, but multiple things break on resume of session after a Suspend.

[Diego (diegojojeda)]

It also happens with driver nvidia-340.108 in elementary OS 5.1.6 Hera.
In my case the error happens with VLC when trying to open the Hikvision rstp streaming (H264), the error lines run fast but stop when closing VLC.

I leave some lines of the error.

VLC media player 3.0.11 Vetinari (revision 3.0.11-0-gdc0c5ced72)
[0000564386f97a00] main libvlc: Ejecutar vlc con la interfaz predeterminada. Use «cvlc» para usar vlc sin interfaz.
Qt: Session management error: None of the authentication protocols specified are supported
QApplication: invalid style override 'adwaita' passed, ignoring it.
 Available styles: Breeze, Windows, Fusion
[0000564386f8d3c0] main playlist: playlist is empty
[00007fc12c04aee0] main decoder error: buffer deadlock prevented
MultiFramedRTPSource::doGetNextFrame1(): The total received frame size exceeds the client's buffer size (250000). 70154 bytes of trailing data will be dropped!
MultiFramedRTPSource::doGetNextFrame1(): The total received frame size exceeds the client's buffer size (500000). 100677 bytes of trailing data will be dropped!
[h264 @ 0x7fc13000a4e0] illegal memory management control operation 13
[00007fc1340020b0] egl_x11 gl error: cannot select OpenGL API
[00007fc12c04aee0] avcodec decoder: Using NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 340.108 Wed Dec 11 14:31:24 PST 2019 for hardware decoding
[h264 @ 0x7fc13000a4e0] Failed setup for format vdpau: hwaccel initialisation returned error.
[00007fc12c04aee0] avcodec decoder error: existing hardware acceleration cannot be reused
[h264 @ 0x7fc13000a4e0] top block unavailable for requested intra mode -1
[h264 @ 0x7fc13000a4e0] error while decoding MB 2 0, bytestream 668
[h264 @ 0x7fc130026900] Missing reference picture, default is 65530
[h264 @ 0x7fc130026900] Missing reference picture, default is 65530
[h264 @ 0x7fc13002dec0] Missing reference picture, default is 65526
[h264 @ 0x7fc13002dec0] Missing reference picture, default is 65526
[h264 @ 0x7fc13008ab20] Missing reference picture, default is 65528
[h264 @ 0x7fc13008ab20] Missing reference picture, default is 65528
[h264 @ 0x7fc1300a6aa0] cabac_init_idc 3 overflow
[h264 @ 0x7fc1300a6aa0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x7fc1300a6aa0] Missing reference picture, default is 65530
[h264 @ 0x7fc1300a6aa0] Missing reference picture, default is 65530
[h264 @ 0x7fc13000a4e0] illegal modification_of_pic_nums_idc 6
[h264 @ 0x7fc13000a4e0] decode_slice_header error
[h264 @ 0x7fc130026900] Missing reference picture, default is 65531
[h264 @ 0x7fc130026900] Missing reference picture, default is 65531
[h264 @ 0x7fc13002dec0] Missing reference picture, default is 65532
[h264 @ 0x7fc13002dec0] Missing reference picture, default is 65532
[h264 @ 0x7fc13008ab20] Missing reference picture, default is 65534
[h264 @ 0x7fc13008ab20] Missing reference picture, default is 65534
[h264 @ 0x7fc1300a6aa0] Missing reference picture, default is 65536
[h264 @ 0x7fc1300a6aa0] Missing reference picture, default is 65536
[h264 @ 0x7fc13000a4e0] cabac_init_idc 3 overflow
[h264 @ 0x7fc13000a4e0] decode_slice_header error
[00007fc138078d00] freetype spu text error: LayoutParagraph(): Invalid max width
[00007fc138078d00] freetype spu text error:...

[Alexey (alexey-rin)]

Just deleted 240G syslog file after system stalled.
Syslog.1 is 20G full of folowing:
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Aug 19 08:24:41 alexey-ASUS io.elementary.wingpanel.desktop[1935]: [00007f6cd43aa790] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

[^rooker (rooker)]

Same here:
36 GB .xsession-errors - Noticed it only because several applications behaved weird, due to lack of diskspace.

  * OS: Xubuntu 18.04.5
  * nvidia driver installed: 390.132
  * VLC 3.0.8

I'm a heavy suspend/resume user, so I think this may be the same issue.

Anything we can do to help?

[Hugh Ingram (hughi94)]

This affect me too. /var/log/syslog fills up until my disk runs out of space.

Steps to recreate:
- open a video in VLC
- pause the video
- suspend computer
- un-suspend computer

I see these errors in syslog:

Sep 11 19:01:04 SOL Thunar.desktop[12293]: [00007f04e809acb0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Sep 11 19:01:04 SOL Thunar.desktop[12293]: [00007f04e809acb0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

The errors stop after closing VLC.

My .xsession-error file is very short, ~20 lines and several years old.

* OS: Ubuntu 18.04
* kernel: x86_64 Linux 4.15.0-115-generic
* VLC 3.0.8
* gpu: Nvidia GTX 970
* nvidia driver installed: 450.66

[Caleb M Miller (dudesterci)]

I had the exact same error. I left my computer to go into suspend with vlc paused and came back with approximately 120GB of log files.

Sep 23 21:51:51 (myusermane) gnome-shell[20549]: [00007f2b143ab850] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.

[Vadym Stupakov (red-eyed)]

The bug is appear after resuming PC from the suspend when VLC was paused.
I love VLC and don't want to switch to other player, so the workaround is simply to kill VLC after resume.

I created systemd service for that and now it's fine
Look at the gist https://gist.github.com/Red-Eyed/0fdaae7876254dccf4396f33aa1a8875

[Pavils Jurjans (passiday)]

I can confirm the bug is still there. Ubuntu 20.04.1 using Nvidia 460.32.03 driver. Played an mp4 video on VLC, paused, suspended, then woke up. Shortly after waking up, rsyslogd and systemd-journal processes started consuming beyong-100% CPU, and the size of /var/log directory grew at a rate of approximately 70 MB/min. The systemctl is filled with thousands of `vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.` messages.

[Christian Wilkie (christian-wilkie)]

same issue here -

Jan 25 20:32:39 oculus vlc_vlc.desktop[1414205]: [00007f3134417940] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 25 20:32:39 oculus vlc_vlc.desktop[1414205]: [00007f3134417940] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 25 20:32:39 oculus vlc_vlc.desktop[1414205]: [00007f3134417940] vdpau_chroma filter error: video mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Jan 25 20:32:39

(base) chris@oculus:/var/log$ screenfetch
                          ./+o+- chris@oculus
                  yyyyy- -yyyyyy+ OS: Ubuntu 20.10 groovy
               ://+//////-yyyyyyo Kernel: x86_64 Linux 5.8.0-38-generic
           .++ .:/++++++/-.+sss/` Uptime: 6d 11h 28m
         .:++o: /++++++++/:--:/- Packages: 3380
        o:+o+:++.`..```.-/oo+++++/ Shell: bash 5.0.17
       .:+o:+o/. `+sssoo+/ Resolution: 5120x1440
  .++/+:+oo+o:` /sssooo. DE: GNOME 3.38.1
 /+++//+:`oo+o /::--:. WM: Mutter
 \+/+o+++`o++o ++////. WM Theme: Adwaita
  .++.o+++oo+:` /dddhhh. GTK Theme: Yaru [GTK2/3]
       .+.o+oo:. `oddhhhh+ Icon Theme: Yaru
        \+.++o+o``-````.:ohdhhhhh+ Font: Ubuntu 11
         `:o+++ `ohhhhhhhhyo++os: Disk: 832G / 14T (6%)
           .o:`.syhhhhhhh/.oo++o` CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K @ 8x 4.4GHz [46.0°C]
               /osyyyyyyo++ooo+++/ GPU: GeForce GTX 1080
                   ````` +oo+++o\: RAM: 8988MiB / 32062MiB
                          `oo++.

(base) chris@oculus:/var/log$ nvidia-smi
Mon Jan 25 20:41:23 2021
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 450.102.04 Driver Version: 450.102.04 CUDA Version: 11.0 |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M| Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap| Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
| 0 GeForce GTX 1080 Off | 00000000:02:00.0 On | N/A |
| 36% 56C P0 43W / 180W | 1020MiB / 8117MiB | 3% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+

[rubo77 (rubo77)]

You can close VLC or just jump to another time location in the video then the log-spam will stop too.

Workaround:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/633378/20661

[Stephen (belrik)]

Still present on nvidia-driver-460 (460.39-0ubuntu0.20.04.1).

[Adrian Wilkins (adrian-wilkins)]

Been running -460 for ages, my syslog occupies 80GB of disk space and out of 526M log lines, 99.996% of them mention "Nautilus".

[Ákos Pintér (akospinter0808)]

Hi everyone!

Just deleted 2 syslogs which sized 83GB altogether. The problem still persists. Another things which I saw, after clearing the syslogs. The recursive loop does not only appear when we go to suspend mode with paused vlc or when switching users. For me, it created a bit more than 400 lines of code by just opening a movie with VLC and then pausing it to check what's happening in syslog. I think that's a big problem already, since I bought an ssd a year ago and the health already dropped to 98% from 100%. I don't leave my partition full all the time if anyone would wonder and I don't write / read a lot to it. So I can only imagine that these big chunks of reading/writing of codes did damage to the ssd's health.

I'm not going to risk it, I am changing vlc to something else. I will begin the hunt now.

P.s: Rubo's workaround didn't work for me.

Have a good day!

[Ákos Pintér (akospinter0808)]

Note - I oftenly watch 4k HDR movies and I was trying Kodi but it was pretty unsaturated. VLC was my savior. Then I just tried MPV. Pretty good!

[Alexander Fedulov (afedulov)]

I can confirm the same behaviour on nvidia-450.120.04-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 with Linux Mint (Cinnamon).

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

Apologies if I missed this, but did anyone report this to Nvidia? Either via https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44/~/where-can-i-get-support-for-linux-drivers%3F or their forum here: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/c/gpu-unix-graphics/linux/148

Likely more helpful to use forum so others can follow.

[Xendi (trioxin)]

Same as:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/org-gnome-nautilus-79204-vdpau-chroma-filter-error-video-mixer-attributes-failure-an-invalid-handle-value-was-provided/65735/2

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/1509

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/561565/i-dont-know-what-is-producing-the-gigabytes-of-error-in-syslog

Deleting VLC does not solve. I added `SystemMaxUse=50M` to `/etc/systemd/journald.conf` which may help about disk space. Biggest problem for me though is it is constantly maxing out 1 CPU core via xorg, unless it's a coincidence.

[Michal Grňo (michal-grno)]

I can confirm this also happens on elementary OS 6 with nvidia-driver-470. I tried to add a limit to /etc/systemd/journald.conf, but it didn't help at all. Finally I managed to limit the log size using this tutorial:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/184949/how-do-i-limit-the-size-of-my-syslog

I still have problems with hight CPU & SSD usage caused by the logging, but at least it doesn't fill my disk entirely.

[Ian (superian)]

Yes, it also affects version 470 of the drivers.

Fortunately, this time when I switched to another user having not closed a (paused) video in VLC, I had plenty of free space: /var/log/syslog got 7GB bigger in a couple of minutes.

I see version 495 is available. I have installed that, but after over two years of this problem not being fixed, I am not holding my breath...

[Ian (superian)]

Ah, this PC (Nvidia GT1050 Ti graphics card) won't boot with the 495 drivers, so I am back with 470.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[SA (superaorta)]

Just encountered this bug - my computer was flat out spamming the console with this error caused by VLC borking after resume Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS using nvidia 515

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[de Chalain (gchalain)]

I have the same issue on Ubuntu 23.04 using NVIDIA 470.199.02