Installing mcelog by default on Fedora sounds unnecessary, as the issues reported by mcelog are not actionable by the user. Let's keep our default installation small!
(In reply to Lennart Poettering from comment #0) > Installing mcelog by default on Fedora sounds unnecessary, as the issues > reported by mcelog are not actionable by the user. I don't understand the logic here. Messages about flaky hardware are useful, and can help diagnose other issues (e.g. random failures that cannot be explained can be attributed to hardware issues if accompanied by MCE errors). > Let's keep our default installation small! mcelog binary is 101k on disk, to it really has a tiny footprint.
Are these errors in the journal when mcelog is not installed?
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(In reply to Bill Nottingham from comment #2) > Are these errors in the journal when mcelog is not installed? I don't think so.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle. Changing version to '23'. (As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.) More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora23
mcelog is very useful on hardware capable of logging mce errors. The daemon has specific support for various processors and is necessary to retrieve and interpret the errors.