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nvidia-graphics-drivers-340 package

  1. Bug #1846374
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 1846374

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Nikolai (nicolas-minec) wrote :

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.