Bug 847396 - KERNEL PANIC - Some CPUs didn't answer in sychronization
Summary: KERNEL PANIC - Some CPUs didn't answer in sychronization
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 17
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-08-10 20:40 UTC by Marc-Andre Laverdiere
Modified: 2013-01-02 13:22 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-01-02 13:22:22 UTC
Type: Bug
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2012-08-10 20:40 UTC, Marc-Andre Laverdiere 		no flags Details
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Description Marc-Andre Laverdiere 2012-08-10 20:40:05 UTC 
Created attachment 603630 [details]
Picture of the output on the screen

Description of problem:
System crashes with kernel panic output message displayed.

The message states:
CPU 2: Machine check exception: 5 bank 4: B2000000110040...
TSC 2607ec463a12
Processor 0:206a7 TIME 1344618342 Socket 0 APIC 2 microco...
Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii'
Some CPUs didn't answer in synchronization
Machine check: Invalid
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal machine check on current CPU
RIP !INEXACT! 33:<00000038e1599024>
Shutting down CPUs with NMI
panic occured, switching back to text console
Rebooting in 30 seconds
ACPI MEMORY or I/O RESET_REG

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

How reproducible:
This happened twice when running big compilation loads so far.

Steps to Reproduce:
(unsure steps)
1. Update the LibreOffice source from git
2. Run nice -n19 make
3. Let it happen
(I didn't re-test it)

Actual results:
Crash.

Expected results:
No crash.

Additional info:
Kernel version: kernel-3.5.0-2.fc17.x86_64
Comment 1 Dave Jones 2012-08-14 21:31:23 UTC 
this sounds like a hardware problem of some kind.
Comment 2 Marc-Andre Laverdiere 2012-08-15 09:38:43 UTC 
That is possible. But it hasn't happened in other kernels...
Comment 3 Justin M. Forbes 2012-09-06 19:25:03 UTC 
Is this still happening with 3.5.3? If so, can you boot into the last 3.4 kernel and see if it reproduces there?
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