From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Felix von Leitner <felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MCEs
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:04:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r66598eq.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081024124502.GA9425@codeblau.de> (Felix von Leitner's message of "Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:45:02 +0200")
Felix von Leitner <felix-linuxkernel@fefe.de> writes:
> This is the kind of MCE that freezes the box and causes a panic. The
> trace does not end up in syslog. I found a program called mcelog which
> I am supposed to call regularly from cron, but how can that help me when
> the first MCE I get insta-panics the box?
When you do a warm boot (not power cycle, but reset button or
panic=30) then the panic mce will be logged after reboot.
> Now the most common causes for MCEs are apparently heat issues and bad
> memory. I can rule out both. Could this be an artifact of some bad
> ACPI tables?
>
> How do you debug this kind of problem?
It's some sort of hardware problem, debugging it typically
either involves fixing the cooling or exchanging components.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-24 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-24 12:45 MCEs Felix von Leitner
2008-10-24 16:23 ` MCEs Tony Vroon
2008-10-24 18:04 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-10-24 21:44 ` MCEs Felix von Leitner
2008-10-24 23:07 ` MCEs Felix von Leitner
2008-10-25 7:00 ` MCEs Andi Kleen
2008-10-25 10:05 ` MCEs Felix von Leitner
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