Help! Hardware error or something... See my picture for the error.

barnac1e · 01-06-2012, 09:16 AM

Hi,

I keep getting this one the 2011 Mandriva for i586. It seems to happen on this KDE based distro only too but any prior ones with Gnome there is no problem. (See my attachment for the picture.)

This is not something I have done before nor am I familiar with these types of errors but only in Mandriva do I have this problem-no other distro. If anyone can give a real user friendly answer to fix this it will be appreciated! Otherwise, once again I will have to uninstall this distro but I want to keep it!

amani · 01-06-2012, 09:23 AM

Do as suggested by the message

http://mcelog.org/faq.html

camorri · 01-06-2012, 09:34 AM

Let me see if I can keep this user friendly....

Here is what mcelog is...

Quote:

mcelog is the user space backend for logging machine check errors
reported by the hardware to the kernel. The kernel does the immediate
actions (like killing processes etc.) and mcelog decodes the logs
the errors.

It primarily handles machine checks and thermal events, which
are reported for errors detected by the CPU.

It is recommended that mcelog runs on all x86 machines, both
64bit (since early 2.6) and 32bit (since 2.6.32)

mcelog can run in several modi: cronjob, trigger, daemon

Form the error messages posted, it would appear the daemon is running. You can confirm that by going into MCC, I think there should be an Icon for starting and stopping services. I would bet you have this daemon running, and it is having trouble with the cpu type you are running it on.

Is this an older system? Or something shiny and new?

You can also look in Installed Programs, and see if you can find a package with 'mcelog' in the title. It might be you are missing a package. Not sure on that one, just a thought.