Bug#954065: gnome-shell: Could not allocate offscreen buffer storage

[Harald Dunkel]

Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.30.2-11~deb10u1

Within a few hours gnome-shell wrote >20 GByte into /var/log/{messages,syslog,user.log}:

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Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.705821:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(4007)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Could not allocate offscreen buffer storage.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.708524:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(5815)] GLES2DecoderImpl::ResizeOffscreenFramebuffer failed because offscreen FBO was incomplete.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.708882:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(4007)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Could not allocate offscreen buffer storage.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.711468:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(5815)] GLES2DecoderImpl::ResizeOffscreenFramebuffer failed because offscreen FBO was incomplete.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.711779:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(4007)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Could not allocate offscreen buffer storage.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.714068:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(5815)] GLES2DecoderImpl::ResizeOffscreenFramebuffer failed because offscreen FBO was incomplete.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.714382:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(4007)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Could not allocate offscreen buffer storage.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.716740:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(5815)] GLES2DecoderImpl::ResizeOffscreenFramebuffer failed because offscreen FBO was incomplete.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.717090:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(4007)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Could not allocate offscreen buffer storage.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.719380:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(5815)] GLES2DecoderImpl::ResizeOffscreenFramebuffer failed because offscreen FBO was incomplete.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.719664:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(4007)] ContextResult::kFatalFailure: Could not allocate offscreen buffer storage.
Mar 15 02:01:58 dpcl071 org.gnome.Shell.desktop[3434]: [8045:8045:0315/020158.722410:ERROR:gles2_cmd_decoder.cc(5815)] GLES2DecoderImpl::ResizeOffscreenFramebuffer failed because offscreen FBO was incomplete.
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Then the partition was full and logrotate failed.


Regards
Harri