Fatal IO error 11 on totem startup when using the Nvidia binary driver and VAAPI enabled

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It sounds like some part of the system has crashed. To help us find the cause of the crash please follow these steps:

1. Look in /var/crash for crash files and if found run:
    ubuntu-bug YOURFILE.crash
Then tell us the ID of the newly-created bug.

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3. If step 2 also failed then apply the workaround from bug 994921, reboot, reproduce the crash, and retry step 1.

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I tried steps 1, 2 and 3, but it doesn't change a thing: the crash occurs, the message "totem: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1." is spawned in the terminal, but no .crash file is generated.

OK. Can you please attach a log file showing the IO error with some more context?

Sorry Daniel, I don't understand what you need. The bug occurs immediately after I try to launch totem:

juloliv@juloliv:~$ totem
Gdk-Message: 10:52:39.290: totem: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :1.

There is no particular "context": it crashes all the time, as soon as it's launched, and there is no log to attach that I know of.

Sorry, I spend so much time debugging Xorg server crashes that for a moment I forgot this was about totem...

Please try running the following commands before running totem:

  ulimit -c unlimited
  export GDK_SYNCHRONIZE=1
  totem

Hopefully the crash still occurs.

Now look in either:
  * the current directory; or
  * your home directory; or
  * /var/crash
for a new core file or crash file. When found, run:

  ubuntu-bug THEFILE

and tell us the new bug ID created.

I've done that and the bug still occurs, but it doesn't generate any core or crash file.

I've tracked down the offending source code:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/blob/master/gdk/x11/gdkmain-x11.c#L242

and unfortunately it will just exit without leaving a crash or dump file :(

Just an idea: Please try this to see if it stops the problem from happening:

  sudo apt remove mesa-va-drivers gstreamer1.0-vaapi

If that doesn't fix it then the next step I think is to ask for help from the Totem developers. So please open a new "issue" here:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/totem/issues

Removing mesa-va-drivers and gstreamer-1.0-vaapi fixed the bug. Thanks a lot for your help!

Hi.
I'm affected too.
I solved by removing packages indicated in #9 by @vanvugt.
Thanks a lot!

The solution at #9 solved the same issue in "Parole" (the eq. of Totem in Xfce4)!!!
Thankyou!!!