Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: MCEs | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:04:29 +0200 |
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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
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