Bug 505654 - Amarok filling up /var with syslog messages
Summary: Amarok filling up /var with syslog messages
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: amarok
Classification: Applications
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 3.2.2
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: kf5
Assignee: Amarok Bugs
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Reported: 2025-06-16 07:00 UTC by robert marshall
Modified: 2025-06-20 11:23 UTC (History)
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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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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.