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I am on Ubuntu 18.04

I was constantly getting Filesystem.root not enough space warnings. So, I searched on the web a little bit and learned how to inspect disk usage by,

sudo baobab

Then I saw that, /var/log was 74 GBs and I surprised. I looked inside that directory and saw sys.log was almost 72 GBs.

I have solved the issue by emptying the content of that syslog document by following the solution here.

For now, it looks like it is solved, however I wonder what might have been the reason for such large log file? Is that usual?

Thanks.

UPDATE

I now figured out that I haven't solve anything, it just filled up to 30 GB again in minutes, so I guess something is wrong,

I inspected syslog by

cat syslog | more

Some part of the output is :

Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer attributes failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer rendering failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video
 mixer features failure: An invalid handle value was provided.
Mar 21 10:06:38 muyustan-ubuntu org.gnome.Nautilus[1577]: [00007fb0a087e5b0] vdpau_chroma filter error: video

NOW, it looks like I am getting infinitely many errors in seconds, and it fills up the syslog document. However, I am incapable of locating what is the problem and how should I correct it.

Thanks.

Mark Kirby
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  • You haven't said what OS/release you are talking about, and I don't know /var/log/sys.log but you could be talking about /var/log/syslog. If it's that large I would explore it and look for what is creating all the messages and look at cause, not the symptom. – guiverc Mar 21 '20 at 07:22
  • @guiverc, Thanks, I have added now, 18.04. I think it is too late to inspect them... – muyustan Mar 21 '20 at 07:23
  • @guiverc can you please check my update? – muyustan Mar 21 '20 at 07:38
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    Looks like https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-435/+bug/1846374 – steeldriver Mar 21 '20 at 09:19

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