Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:44:22 +0200 | From | Felix von Leitner <> | Subject | Re: MCEs |
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> > 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.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong here. I run mcelog from the shell after the boot. Nothing happens, I get the shell prompt right back.
How do I know it's really a MCE? So far my symptoms are: the machine freezes, then a panic dump scrolls by, and the only text I can see on my screen are the stack dump lines, which contain something to the tune of machine_check() or so. Nothing shows up in syslog, probably the kernel decides the box is too hosed to log anything.
Felix
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