Using `clearpage` after `figure*` in revtex gives error "Output routine didn't use all of \box255"

Question

The problem can be replicated (I hope) with the following MWE:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{revtex4-1}

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure*}
    \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
\end{figure*}
\clearpage

Some (or none) text

\end{document}

What happens is that the error Output routine didn't use all of \box255. [] is given, the image does not appear, and some blank pages are inserted instead.

The error doesn't show up changing most of the details in the above MWE. For example, it doesn't happen if:

1. revtex is not used, or even if just the twocolumn option is not given
2. The package graphicx is used instead of tikz to provide \includegraphics
3. figure is used instead of figure*.

The problem still appears if:

1. Instead of \clearpage I use \FloatBarrier,
2. The \clearpage command is before instead of after the figure*,
3. revtex4 is used instead of revtex4-1.

However, I need all of these elements in my actual document. The case in which I experience the above is a long (around 10 pages) paper, written in revtex4-1, in which I need to flush a long series of space-consuming wide-text figures before the bibliography. I however find myself completely unable to do so due to the above problem. I need the tikz package because the figures are partly built via tikz commands. I need the figures to be printed before the bibliography because if I don't explicitly impose so they end up scattered in the middle of various pieces of bibliography.

I tried a wide variety of combinations of solutions, but none worked. The best workaround I found was to have all the images printed after the bibliography, but that also is not acceptable because I also need to have an appendix after the bibliography, and I cannot have the images printed after also all the appendices, nor I want them scattered around the text of the appendices. Does anyone have an idea of what is going on here?

EDIT

David Carlisle's fix works on the above MWE. When used on a case with two figures, each composed of a pair of minipages, the dimensions of the second one are somehow changed with the fix. See the following new MWE:

\documentclass[twocolumn]{revtex4-1}

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure*}
    \begin{minipage}[b]{\columnwidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example-image-a}
    \end{minipage}%
    \begin{minipage}[b]{\columnwidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example-image-a}
    \end{minipage}%
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}
    \begin{minipage}[b]{\columnwidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example-image-a}
    \end{minipage}%
    \begin{minipage}[b]{\columnwidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example-image-a}
    \end{minipage}%
\end{figure*}

\clearpage

Some (or none) text

\end{document}

which results after using the fix suggested in

Answer 1

I have no idea, but...

\documentclass[twocolumn]{revtex4-1}

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\makeatletter\onecolumngrid@push\makeatother
\begin{figure*}
    \includegraphics[width=\linewidth]{example-image-a}
\end{figure*}
\clearpage
\makeatletter\onecolumngrid@pop\makeatother


Some (or none) text

\end{document}

---

You need to account for \columnwidth changing meaning when you locally switch to one column (actually \columnwidth was probably wrong anyway as you were not separating your minipages by columnsep).

\documentclass[twocolumn]{revtex4-1}

\usepackage{tikz}

\begin{document}

\makeatletter\onecolumngrid@push\makeatother
\begin{figure*}
    \begin{minipage}[b]{.5\textwidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example-image-a}
    \end{minipage}%
    \begin{minipage}[b]{.5\textwidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example-image-a}
    \end{minipage}%
\end{figure*}

\begin{figure*}
    \begin{minipage}[b]{.5\textwidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example-image-a}
    \end{minipage}%
    \begin{minipage}[b]{.5\textwidth}
            \includegraphics[width=\columnwidth]{example-image-a}
    \end{minipage}%
\end{figure*}

\clearpage
\makeatletter\onecolumngrid@pop\makeatother

Some (or none) text

\end{document}