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iznogoud77

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Registered: 2020-10-15

Posts: 2

Gnome-shell spamming log

Hi all,

I have this annoying log message in systemd journal:

out 19 09:35:54 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093554.659673:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:54 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093554.675428:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:54 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093554.692324:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:54 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093554.708717:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:54 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093554.726965:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:54 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093554.743799:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:54 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093554.760535:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:54 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093554.773365:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:55 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093555.113671:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.
out 19 09:35:55 pt-pf1pwlth gnome-shell[1942]: [1971:1971:1019/093555.281741:ERROR:vulkan_swap_chain.cc(392)] Swapchian is suboptimal.

I am getting spammed with this. This seems to be related with window resizing but even when not resizing anything I get bombarded with these.

Has anyone seen this? Any ideas on where to look further?

Regards

johnnynyquist

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Registered: 2016-01-25

Posts: 27

Re: Gnome-shell spamming log

Short answer, yes. Long answer, not exactly. I've observed a number of occasions where my logs will absolutely fill up (to the tune of gigabytes per day) with constant streams of error messages from gnome_shell, but usually they are javascript-related:

...
Oct 15 12:10:06 ember gnome-shell[826]: JS ERROR: TypeError: null has no properties _onFocusChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/closeDialog.js:135:9
Oct 15 12:10:06 ember gnome-shell[826]: JS ERROR: TypeError: null has no properties _onFocusChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/closeDialog.js:135:9
Oct 15 12:10:06 ember gnome-shell[826]: JS ERROR: TypeError: null has no properties _onFocusChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/closeDialog.js:135:9
Oct 15 12:10:06 ember gnome-shell[826]: JS ERROR: TypeError: null has no properties _onFocusChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/closeDialog.js:135:9
Oct 15 12:10:06 ember gnome-shell[826]: JS ERROR: TypeError: null has no properties _onFocusChanged@resource:///org/gnome/shell/ui/closeDialog.js:135:9
...

The same issue comes up occasionally, but in different forms:

...
Oct 21 23:45:07 ember gnome-shell[513922]: Window manager warning: Ping serial 1004665768 was reused for window 0x840001f, previous use was for window 0x8400028.
Oct 21 23:45:07 ember gnome-shell[513922]: Window manager warning: Ping serial 1004665768 was reused for window 0x8400018, previous use was for window 0x8400028.
Oct 21 23:45:07 ember gnome-shell[513922]: Window manager warning: Ping serial 1004665768 was reused for window 0x840001f, previous use was for window 0x8400028.
Oct 21 23:45:07 ember gnome-shell[513922]: Window manager warning: Ping serial 1004665768 was reused for window 0x8400018, previous use was for window 0x8400028.
Oct 21 23:45:07 ember gnome-shell[513922]: Window manager warning: Ping serial 1004665768 was reused for window 0x840001f, previous use was for window 0x8400028.
...

Effect on my logs:

...
-rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 134217728 Oct 15 11:46 system@1114252c692c49adbb1d85d21b3f2651-00000000001ae8b7-0005b1b980724eb0.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 134217728 Oct 15 12:03 system@1114252c692c49adbb1d85d21b3f2651-00000000001d044d-0005b1ba11275d71.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal 134217728 Oct 15 12:08 system@1114252c692c49adbb1d85d21b3f2651-00000000001f1d0b-0005b1ba4ef2a441.journal
-rw-r-----+ 1 root systemd-journal  50331648 Oct 15 12:12 system.journal

That's about 10 MB of raw log output per minute of use.

Killing gnome-shell and having it respawn usually solves the issue. But it does seem like there is a systemic problem that might warrant a bug report.

However, I've never seen the specific error you mention (typo and all!) because I don't use that package

Last edited by johnnynyquist (2020-10-22 22:37:28)