Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Request for MCE decode (AMD Barcelona, fam 10h) | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:55:40 +0200 |
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Tony Vroon <tony@vroon.org> writes:
> HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Please contact your hardware vendor ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> I realize that the linux kernel may be entirely blameless in this > situation,
It is, like mcelog told you.
> but I'd like to have some peer insight before I run after > vendors.
It unfortunately turns out that mcelog logging is a tricky psychological problem. How should the warning above have looked like so that you would not have required "peer insight" and actually just contacted your hardware vendor?
Thank you.
-Andi (who wonders if <blink> tags in syslog would be useful to solve this)
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