Bug 505654

Summary:	Amarok filling up /var with syslog messages
Product:	[Applications] amarok	Reporter:	robert marshall <robert>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Amarok Bugs <amarok-bugs-null>
Status:	NEEDSINFO WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	tuomas
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	3.2.2
Target Milestone:	kf5
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description robert marshall 2025-06-16 07:00:09 UTC

I've just upgraded to ubuntu 25.04 on a new machine and am seeing the file system filling up with messages in /var/log/syslog. is morning (I left the m/c on and amarok running) I had this in /var/log
  /var/log:
  -rw-r-----   1 syslog            adm             120939222759 Jun 15 00:58 syslog.1
  -rw-r-----   1 syslog            adm              87395692544 Jun 16 07:47 syslog

looking at the end of syslog
2025-06-16T07:49:23.309366+01:00 poulenc2 amarok[173731]: [173731:173784:0616/074923.309251:ERROR:gl_context_egl.cc(259)] eglCreateContext failed with error EGL_BAD_CONTEXT
2025-06-16T07:49:23.309388+01:00 poulenc2 amarok[173731]: [173731:173784:0616/074923.309285:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(753)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
2025-06-16T07:49:23.309406+01:00 poulenc2 amarok[173731]: [173731:173784:0616/074923.309297:ERROR:shared_image_stub.cc(470)] SharedImageStub: unable to create context
2025-06-16T07:49:23.309424+01:00 poulenc2 amarok[173731]: [173731:173784:0616/074923.309311:ERROR:gpu_channel.cc(449)] GpuChannel: Failed to create SharedImageStub
2025-06-16T07:49:23.310212+01:00 poulenc2 amarok[173731]: [173731:173784:0616/074923.310119:ERROR:gl_context_egl.cc(259)] eglCreateContext failed with error EGL_BAD_CONTEXT
2025-06-16T07:49:23.310230+01:00 poulenc2 amarok[173731]: [173731:173784:0616/074923.310147:ERROR:gpu_channel_manager.cc(753)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Failed to create shared context for virtualization.
2025-06-16T07:49:23.310241+01:00 poulenc2 amarok[173731]: [173731:173784:0616/074923.310158:ERROR:shared_image_stub.cc(470)] SharedImageStub: unable to create context
2025-06-16T07:49:23.310259+01:00 poulenc2 amarok[173731]: [173731:173784:0616/074923.310171:ERROR:gpu_channel.cc(449)] GpuChannel: Failed to create SharedImageStub

cpu doesn't appear overloaded. Now playing music with amarok and messages are still appearing in syslog, I'll close it and reopen..



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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 robert marshall 2025-06-16 10:37:54 UTC

This appears to be a wayland issue rather than amarok - see https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasmashell-flooding-syslog-in-wayland/13569 and other places...

Comment 2 robert marshall 2025-06-18 15:01:10 UTC

I've removed wikipedia from my enabled applets and the size of /var/log/syslog is no longer increasing at a mad rate! (the applet didn't appear to be working in wayland)

Comment 3 Tuomas Nurmi 2025-06-20 11:23:29 UTC

Thank you for the report! I tested Qt6 based Amarok in Wayland environment (in VirtualBox though) and Wikipedia applet seemed to work ok, and got no such errors in syslog. I don't have test system readily available to try Qt5 Amarok to see if the problem's reproducible there, or if it's something distribution / graphics adapter specific. I haven't seen any other mentions of such problems yet, so possibly dependent on some specifics. But a Qt6 based stable version shouldn't be that far away, hopefully that will also fix this issue.

Comment 4 Tuomas Nurmi 2026-02-01 18:41:06 UTC

Have you had a chance to try a Qt6 based version yet? (3.3.0 or later)
I suspect that this one got fixed with the Qt update

Comment 5 robert marshall 2026-02-04 18:22:45 UTC

I'm now on kubuntu 25.10 and that is still on 3.2.2 of amarok. Do you know of a ppa with version 3.3, otherwise I may have to bit the bullet and either build it myself or use the flatpack version. I've also reverted to X11 from wayland - for this and other reasons, one of which I intend to bug report here.

Comment 6 Tuomas Nurmi 2026-02-07 11:10:53 UTC

(In reply to robert marshall from comment #5)
> I'm now on kubuntu 25.10 and that is still on 3.2.2 of amarok. Do you know
> of a ppa with version 3.3, otherwise I may have to bit the bullet and either
> build it myself or use the flatpack version. I've also reverted to X11 from
> wayland - for this and other reasons, one of which I intend to bug report
> here.

A good question. I have barely any idea, but a after a bit of digging, this one turned up https://launchpad.net/~joe-yasi/+archive/ubuntu/kde5backports/+packages and the version number 3.3.2-1ubuntu1+yasi1~25.10 seems promising.