Bug 1170835 - ABRT claims mcelog is uninstalled or disabled, but it is installed and enabled
Summary: ABRT claims mcelog is uninstalled or disabled, but it is installed and enabled
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1496303
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: abrt
Version: 29
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: abrt
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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: 1278420 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-12-04 23:59 UTC by Michael Catanzaro
Modified: 2020-01-02 18:33 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2019-01-18 12:15:20 UTC
Type: Bug
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Github abrt abrt issues 942 0 None open Replace abrt-dump-journal-oops MCE features with rasdaemon 2020-05-12 14:21:49 UTC

Description Michael Catanzaro 2014-12-04 23:59:43 UTC
Description of problem: My CPU is overheating, causing ABRT to display machine check events. When I click the Details button on the problem report, then expand the Backtrace entry, I see the following message:

The kernel log indicates that hardware errors were detected.
The data was saved by kernel for processing by the mcelog tool.
However, neither /var/log/mcelog nor system log contain mcelog messages.
Most likely reason is that mcelog is not installed or not configured
to be started during boot.
Without this tool running, the binary data saved by kernel
is of limited usefulness.
(You can save this data anyway by running 'cat </dev/mcelog >FILE').
The recommended course of action is to install mcelog.
If another hardware error would occur, a user-readable description
of it will be saved in system log or /var/log/mcelog.

But this message is bogus. I have a fresh install of Fedora Workstation. mcelog is installed and enabled by default, and I can see what went wrong with 'systemctl status mcelog'. Note that /var/log/mcelog does not exist; it's probably been replaced with the system journal.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): abrt-2.3.0-3.fc21

Actual results: ABRT claims mcelog is uninstalled or disabled


Expected results: ABRT realizes that mcelog is installed and enabled. Even better if it can display the error message from the log.

Comment 1 Jakub Filak 2015-01-06 09:40:48 UTC
Thank you for the report!

abrt-action-check-oops-for-hw-error needs to be made aware of systemd-journald.

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2015-11-04 13:01:07 UTC
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Comment 3 Christopher Beland 2015-11-17 23:43:55 UTC
I'm seeing the same problem with abrt-2.7.0-2.fc23.x86_64.

journalctl excerpt:

Nov 17 16:55:13 localhost.localdomain mcelog[804]: CPU 2 THERMAL EVENT TSC 4f28e65ebf6
Nov 17 16:55:13 localhost.localdomain mcelog[804]: TIME 1447797085 Tue Nov 17 16:51:25 2015
Nov 17 16:55:13 localhost.localdomain mcelog[804]: Processor 2 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
Nov 17 16:55:13 localhost.localdomain mcelog[804]: STATUS 88010282 MCGSTATUS 0
Nov 17 16:55:13 localhost.localdomain mcelog[804]: MCGCAP c07 APICID 1 SOCKETID 0
Nov 17 16:55:13 localhost.localdomain mcelog[804]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 58
Nov 17 16:55:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-dump-journal-oops[859]: abrt-dump-journal-oops: Found oopses: 1
Nov 17 16:55:14 localhost.localdomain abrt-dump-journal-oops[859]: abrt-dump-journal-oops: Creating problem directories

Comment 4 Jakub Filak 2015-12-10 09:35:48 UTC
*** Bug 1278420 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Jakub Filak 2016-07-21 14:57:58 UTC
Upstream issue: https://github.com/abrt/abrt/issues/942

Comment 6 Fedora End Of Life 2016-11-24 11:19:20 UTC
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and issuing updates for Fedora 23. It is Fedora's policy to close all
bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time
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of '23'.

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plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
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version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above.

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lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a 
more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes 
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Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2016-12-20 13:04:22 UTC
Fedora 23 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-12-20. Fedora 23 is
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Comment 8 Michael Catanzaro 2019-01-17 22:16:37 UTC
Still valid. Reopening.

Comment 9 Matej Marušák 2019-01-18 12:15:20 UTC
Already fixed in abrt-2.11.1-2.fc29

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1496303 ***


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