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From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.37 : MCE problem
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 21:10:57
Message-Id: AANLkTikODq0r3kdx9A066+F9M8VbrdX7TNg6=NSjrOgy@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.37 : MCE problem by Paul Hartman
1 On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Paul Hartman
2 <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net> wrote:
4 >> I've just installed & compiled  gentoo-sources-2.6.37
5 >> & am getting msgs in all my terminals
6 >>
7 >>  Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18 14:32:38 2011 ...
8 >> localhost kernel: [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
9 >>
10 >> Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18 14:32:38 2011 ...
11 >> localhost kernel: [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
12 >>
13 >> There seems to be no change in config options re MCE since 2.6.33 ,
14 >> the previous kernel, which doesn't suffer from this internal spam.
15 >> My CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo.  Everything else seems to be working ok.
16 >>
17 >> Does anyone have any idea what's going on ?
18 >
19 > No, but this seems possibly relevant:
20 >
21 > http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02069
22
23 And in the meantime you can perhaps boot with "nomce" kernel
24 commandline parameter to make it stop trying.

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Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 2.6.37 : MCE problem Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>