Re: Machine Check Exception ?

Dave Jones
2002-01-25T17:23:08Z

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 05:36:23PM +0100, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:

> It boots and runs for quite a while (weeks), then suddenly freezes and
> shows this message.
> It does not happen often, but very rarely.
> Has the number any meaning, or is it a goof?

> > > diehard kernel: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004

This number alone doesn't really tell anything.
There should be an extra line in the log / on the console,
which contains two more 64bit numbers. Putting these into
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/cruft/parsemce.c will decode
them and give you more idea hopefully over whats wrong.
(I really should make that tool a little friendlier ..
I'll do it soon)

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