Re: Machine Check Exception on dual core Xeon

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Oct 20 2006 - 23:31:17 EST


On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:43:20PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2006, at 19:34:59, Steven Truong wrote:
> > Hi, all. I have this node of dual core Xeon 3.2 GHz, 4 Gig of RAM and
> > kernel 2.16.18 on CentOS 4.3. I got kernel panic and after setting up
> > kdump/kexec I was able to capture the kdump core.
> > I found out this message with crash to analyze the core dump:
> >
> > HARDWARE ERROR
> > CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 4 Bank 3:
> > 0000000000000000
> > TSC 0
> > This is not a software problem!
> > Run through mcelog --ascii to decode and contact your hardware vendor
>
> You missed the blatantly obvious error message:
> "This is not a software problem!"
>
> Immediately followed by:
> "contact your hardware vendor"
>
> Please follow that advice

Maybe someone needs to implement <blink> tags for printk ;-)

Dave

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