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From: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
To: "Mikko C." <mikko.cal@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel panic on CentOS
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 15:49:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw5fy0ps.fsf@octavius.laptop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <507C66E0.6070802@gmail.com> (Mikko C.'s message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:41:20 +0200")

Hi,

On Mon, Oct 15 2012, Mikko C. wrote:
> we keep getting kernel panics on our CentOS 6.3 server, running about
> 40 KVM virtual machines.
>
> Here's the screenshot of the trace: http://i.imgur.com/yaRyF.png

The presence of machine_check() suggests that you have a hardware
problem that the kernel doesn't know how to recover from.
(Although you only sent part of the trace.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Check_Exception

- Chris.
-- 
Chris Ball   <cjb@laptop.org>   <http://printf.net/>
One Laptop Per Child

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-15 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-15 19:41 Kernel panic on CentOS Mikko C.
2012-10-15 19:49 ` Chris Ball [this message]
2012-10-15 23:10 ` Alan Cox
2012-10-16  9:50   ` Akemi Yagi

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