Re: Machine Check Exception on Opteron 265

[Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>]

Espen Fjellvær Olsen wrote:
> Hi!
> Today our Opteron 265, 2x2, paniced after many months uptime, giving
> only this error message:
> 
> HARDWARE ERROR
> CPU 2: Machine Check Exception:            4 Bank 4: b60a200100000813
> TSC 6bb9fd0142921a ADDR a891e9b8
> This is not a software problem!
> 
> mcelog --ascii gives this on the above error:
> 
> HARDWARE ERROR
> CPU 2 4 northbridge TSC 6bb9fd0142921a
>   Northbridge ECC error
>   ECC syndrome = 14
>        bit32 = err cpu0
>        bit45 = uncorrected ecc error
>        bit57 = processor context corrupt
>        bit61 = error uncorrected
>   bus error 'local node origin, request didn't time out
>       generic read mem transaction
>       memory access, level generic'
> STATUS b60a200100000813 MCGSTATUS 4
> This is not a software problem!
> 
> 
> As far as we know there wasnt any unuasal activity on the server at the
> time.
> We updated glibc yesterday, but that shouldnt really cause such a problem.
> So now we wonder if this might be an MCE bug, or really a HW problem,
> and if it is one of the CPUs, or the RAM thats faulty.
> We are running 2.6.18.

Sounds like some bad RAM..

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