Budgie-wm[2149]: Can't update stage views actor

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Hello all,

I have thousands entry messages in journal like this:

budgie-wm[2149]: Can't update stage views actor <unnamed>[<MetaSurfaceActorX11>:0x59c7db088f50] is on because it needs an allocation.

Anyone knows how to solve ?

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Please do a bit of testing:

Do fresh error messages occur upon a fresh reboot, after login to be Budgie desktop, with NO applications running?

Or do fresh error messages occur only when a specific application is running? If so, which application?

If a specific application, does that application have different screen options (like full screen)? Can the issue be localized to a specific screen option?

After testing, you may be filing a bug report about this issue. So it’s important to be able to explain how to reproduce the issue on somebody else’s system. More reproducible = better.

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The errors starts at boot as I can see from $journalctl -b

The messages start here

Jan 10 14:08:15 840-G6 systemd[2469]: Starting bamfdaemon.service - BAMF Application Matcher Framework...
Jan 10 14:08:15 840-G6 mate-optimus.desktop[3275]: mate-optimus-applet: launched.
Jan 10 14:08:15 840-G6 mate-optimus.desktop[3275]:   - nvidia-settings and prime-select not detected.
Jan 10 14:08:15 840-G6 mate-optimus.desktop[3275]: mate-optimus-applet: NVIDIA Optimus is not supported.
Jan 10 14:08:15 840-G6 dbus-daemon[2493]: [session uid=1000 pid=2493] Successfully activated service 'org.ayatana.bamf'
Jan 10 14:08:15 840-G6 systemd[2469]: Started bamfdaemon.service - BAMF Application Matcher Framework.
Jan 10 14:08:15 840-G6 budgie-wm[2928]: Can't update stage views actor <unnamed>[<MetaWindowActorX11>:0x56457fdc98f0] is on because it needs an allocation.
Jan 10 14:08:15 840-G6 budgie-wm[2928]: Can't update stage views actor <unnamed>[<MetaSurfaceActorX11>:0x56457fdc9cf0] is on because it needs an allocation.

and repeat it any 30 seconds

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Most of that seems normal, but I suspect your nvidia driver might be borked.
Please also show us this:

modinfo nvidia | grep ^version

One possibility is;

sudo apt install --reinstall budgie-desktop budgie-core gir1.2-budgie-1.0 libbudgie-plugin0 libbudgie-private0 libbudgietheme0 libraven0 gnome-control-center budgie-desktop-environment ubuntu-budgie-desktop

But Please Have Good Back-ups in place first, if not already done.

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I have no nvidia card

I opened a ubuntu bug for now, before to reinstall the entire budgie desktop

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Opened a bug