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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-418 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1846374 Title: Having a video playing/paused when switched to another user generates gigabytes of error logs Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-418 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-418/+bug/1846374/+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
