Hello Joseph, This issue seems to happen randomly. Between the time I posted this bug and now, I decided to mount /var/log on a separate partition, to allow me to use my system the next time this error occurs and to be able to better report bugs. I have not yet experienced the bug but it will probably happen again randomly.
I will try upgrading my kernel to the upstream version you linked, and I'll let you guys know the next time this happens. However, before I do that, I want to ask, on that page it says "First, if one is using select proprietary or out-of-tree modules (ex. vitualbox, nvidia, fglrx, bcmwl, etc.)...", does this mean I would have to use the nouveau drivers instead of Nvidia's proprietary drivers if I wanted to test this against the upstream kernel? As a gamer, I wouldn't be willing to do that until it happens again, the nouveau drivers are not very good. Also, I have several other proprietary applications on my system, such as Dropbox, and TeamViewer, and Google Chrome. Note, also, that I'm not really asking for the fix to be preventing this error, because I'm sure that there is some other problem with my system causing such an error, but I'm instead asking for a "speed limit" for these error messages, to prevent systems from becoming unusable due to gigantic log files, which would be bad should anyone else have this same issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1643719 Title: ACPI AE_NOT_FOUND errors aggressively being spawned, filling up log files. Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: OS: Xubuntu 16.04.1 LTS - Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24 Motherboard: ASRock Z170M Pro4S GPU: Asus Nvidia GTX 770 with 367.57 drivers Storage: Corsair 256 GB SSD, Toshiba 3 TB HDD, Hitachi 2 TB HDD Here's a small sample of the errors: http://pastebin.com/b2Jv8z37 While these errors definitely have a purpose, these error messages are created far too quickly, and this causes severe problems on my system at least, the logs become bloated with these messages, completely filling my root partition, preventing me from using my system. I believe that anyone else who is able to trigger these messages at such a high rate will have the same problem. Based on the amount of messages and the time given for each, it appears that this error message appears approximately 1000 times per second (on my system), creating 3000 lines per second or ~400000 bytes per second (on my system). This fills up about 1.4 GB per hour (on my system) which fills up my root partition in less than a day. Once my root partition is filled, my system becomes unusable. My preferred solution to this issue is to limit the rate at which these messages appear. A limit of one error message per second seems like a good idea. Also, I tried reporting this to the Linux kernel devs, I'm not exactly sure if either of these places is the right place but hopefully somebody will be able to fix this issue. Here is the link to the other bug report https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=188331 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1643719/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
