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Description of problem: During boot the following message is in the messages log: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: At every boot Steps to Reproduce: 1. User kernel-3.1.6-1.fc16.x86_64 2. Boot system 3. Observe /var/log/messages Actual results: Kernel Errors Present Expected results: No Kernel Errors Present Additional info: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/?uuid=pub_ddab803e-5d9c-4cd6-8854-b8e37853031a
unless there's indication that some driver is causing the machine checks, there's nothing we can do here. As the message says, most of the time, these are hardware problems of some kind.
Created attachment 550094 [details] Overheating MCE warings Actually, there has been an issue where a process ran that caused the cpu to get really warm but that was solved. The messages in the attachment were given in the messages log. Could it be possible that there is some information stored somewhere about this error and it needs to be cleared to solve the machine error at start-up? Like with the IML on HP servers?
no, machine checks get logged as they occur, so this isn't replaying old events. as the message states, this is very likely some cooling problem with the hardware, and not something we can fix or work around in software.