"An Error Occurred Compiling the Shaders"

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Off and on, I’m receiving an error dialog box stating “an error occurred compiling the shaders.” There’s no notification listed for reporting and I’m not sure how/where to troubleshoot.

Any advice?

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Does it look like Steam? Or some other video game platform?

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Might be worth trying to clear the shared cache and see if that helps?

rm -r .cache/mesa_shader_cache/
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It doesn’t; there’s no title bar providing any context around which app may be throwing the error. Also interesting is that it occurs very irregularly.

Although I have Steam installed, it is not set to autostart nor is it running in the background when that error pops up.

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Thanks for the tip; I’ll see if that cures the ailment.

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I confirm, I have seen it too, especially after a system startup.

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Well, it turns out that clearing the mesa cache doesn’t completely get rid of this error, as it still pops up from time to time; interestingly, less frequently after running rm -r ~/.cache/mesa_shader_cache/.