PUBLICIDADE GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user’s quota exceeded

Hi gus, after some time using my Fedora I get this msg:

PUBLICIDADE GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user’s quota exceeded

System:
  Kernel: 5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME
    v: 42.3.1 Distro: Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Alienware product: Alienware m15 R6 v: N/A
    serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Alienware model: 0MK6FH v: A01 serial: <filter> UEFI: Alienware
    v: 1.12.0 date: 04/11/2022
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 67.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 67.1/84.3 Wh (79.6%)
CPU:
  Info: 8-core model: 11th Gen Intel Core i7-11800H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    cache: L2: 10 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2033 min/max: 800/4600 cores: 1: 1481 2: 1578 3: 1675
    4: 2237 5: 1151 6: 801 7: 4567 8: 801 9: 2332 10: 3738 11: 2288 12: 2742
    13: 801 14: 923 15: 4619 16: 801
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile / Max-Q] driver: nvidia
    v: 515.57
  Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB
    driver: uvcvideo
  Display: web server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
    resolution: 1920x1080
  OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
    v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 515.57
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl
  Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.11-200.fc36.x86_64 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PipeWire v: 0.3.55 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi
  IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek driver: r8169
  IF: enp46s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth type: USB driver: btusb
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.84 TiB used: 950.95 GiB (50.4%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: SK Hynix model: PC711 NVMe 1TB
    size: 953.87 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 vendor: Western Digital model: WDS100T2B0C-00PXH0
    size: 931.51 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 952.27 GiB used: 269.06 GiB (28.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-0
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 273.9 MiB (28.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 14 MiB (2.3%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 952.27 GiB used: 269.06 GiB (28.3%) fs: btrfs
    dev: /dev/dm-0
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: N/A mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 52 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 665 Uptime: 1h 16m Memory: 62.45 GiB used: 5.77 GiB (9.2%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.19

That tells me a quota was exceeded, possibly locally or possibly on a remote system. Quotas are used to prevent users from filling up an excessive amount of storage space.

You should look at what you were doing when you received that message and make sure storage usage does not exceed the allowed user quota. By default fedora does not (in most cases) enable quotas although since I do not use every spin there may be some cases where quotas are enabled and I would not know of them.

So I do not enable quotas in my Fedora, I do not know why the system shows me this warning…

I’m looking for this problem on the web and I found this post:

But my Nvidia Drives is working well.

After 2h using my Fedora… My Reboot and Power Off it disappeared.


If I do systemctl stop nvidia-powerd.service the Fedora came back to work

Hello, Help!

I have exactly the same problem

There are lot of errors in journalctl like:

gnome-control-c[200388]: Could not create bluez object manager: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-control-c[200388]: Error connecting to ModemManager: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-control-c[200388]: Error retrieving app filter for user (null): GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-keyring-daemon[3572]: daemon/gkd-main.c:853 Couldn't get session state: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-session[3195]: gnome-session-binary[3195]: WARNING: Unable to inhibit system: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-session[3776]: gnome-session-binary[3776]: WARNING: Unable to inhibit system: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-session-binary[3195]: WARNING: Unable to inhibit system: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-session-binary[3776]: WARNING: Unable to inhibit system: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-shell[3805]: Failed to get update info from PackageKit: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-shell[3805]: Failed to inhibit suspend: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-shell[3805]: Ignored exception from dbus method: Gio.DBusError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-shell[3805]: JS ERROR: Failed to open reauthentication channel: Gio.DBusError: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-shell[3805]: JS ERROR: Gio.DBusError: Error calling StartServiceByName for net.reactivated.Fprint: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-software[4042]: failed to refresh the cache: Sending user's quota exceeded
gnome-software[4042]: not GsPlugin error pk-control-error-quark:0: Sending user's quota exceeded
gsd-power[3975]: failed to set dim kbd backlight to 30%: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gsd-power[3975]: failed to turn the kbd backlight off: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
gsd-power[3975]: Unable to inhibit lid switch: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded
org.gnome.Settings.desktop[200388]: Agent registration failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.LimitsExceeded: Sending user's quota exceeded

And everything using dbus seems to stop responding.

As well using
systemctl stop nvidia-powerd.service
unblocked my system.

Same problem here.

systemctl stop nvidia-powerd.service

does resolve the problem, but I am looking for a permanent fix.

Very easy fix.
When installing akmod-nvidia it installs a weak dependency xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power. That is a weak dependency and is not actually required.

If you do a dnf remove xorg-x11-drv-nvidia-power it will remove that package and the service of concern with no negative effects that I have found.

If you do not wish to go that far then use systemctl disable nvidia-powerd.service to prevent it running again.

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Thanks ! It seems to do the trick.