From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I'm having the problem discussed at this URL, http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0401.2/0420.html. My machine is a home built dual PII 333 machine. In a gnome-terminal window, I get this message repeatedly for both CPUs. Message from syslogd@dragon at Mon Feb 16 20:24:40 2004 ... dragon kernel: MCE: The hardware reports a non fatal, correctable incident occurred on CPU 1. Message from syslogd@dragon at Mon Feb 16 20:24:40 2004 ... dragon kernel: Bank 1: a200000000000185 The problem existed for both kernel 2.6.1-1.65smp and 2.6.2-1.81smp, so it may actually be a problem in syslogd, but they occur less frequently with kernel 2.6.2-1.81smp, with no change in the syslogd version (sysklogd-1.4.1-13) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.2-1.81smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot either kernel listed smp kernel 2. Open gnome-terminal, as root or regular user Actual Results: MCE errors reported repeatedly Expected Results: No MCE errors should be reported. If there is a real error being reported, that's fine, but I don't have a clue how to correct it. Additional info:
can you attach output of x86info -a please?
(make sure it a)runs as root and b) cpuid & msr modules are also loaded)
Created attachment 97775 [details] Output of x86info -a
This appears to have been corrected in kernel-smp-2.6.3-1.91. I used to see the messages printed quite frequently while updating with yum/up2date, but I haven't seen them since upgrading the 2.6.3-1.91 (and am currently pulling ~350 updates!)
I've disabled the background checker for now. It raises quite a lot of false positives, sometimes for reasons completely unknown.