Information on 2.6.1 error reports. (ERROR inside)

vexer · 01-23-2004, 01:28 PM

I must have added an option to give notice, when something goes wrong, in the 2.6.1 kernel.
The output I got was this one:

Code:

ominous kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 0.

Message from syslogd@ominous at Fri Jan 23 13:55:14 2004 ...
ominous kernel: Bank 0: 8409c00000000136

I would like to know where I can check and what I can do to find the route of the problem
and clues on fixing it?

Thanks

vexer

thebell · 01-23-2004, 02:41 PM

Quote:

The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident

It looks like you enabled the option to check for non-fatal errors under the Machine Check Exception. From the message you got, it seems to be some issue with a RAM bank. I wouldn't worry about it unless you start seeing them fairly often. If you do, then try checking your RAM.

itsme86 · 01-23-2004, 03:45 PM

This is a kernel configuration option (to display these messages). If you go into the kernel configuration and look at the help for that option it attributes the errors often times to overclocking. It appears to be an AMD-only feature and the CPU automatically corrects the error and then reports that it happened. The kernel option just allows the message to be supressed or shown.

vexer · 01-23-2004, 07:19 PM

Thanks for the info.

vexer