Messages in this thread | | | From | Bubba <> | Subject | Re: CPU failures ... or something else ? | Date | Wed, 25 Dec 2002 20:02:24 -0600 |
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try turning off the Machine Check Exception in the kernel as it is just buggy on some machines, not necessarily a bug in the kernel, or without recompiling, use the kernel param "nomce"
On Wednesday 25 December 2002 19:53, Josh Brooks wrote: > Hello, > > I have a dual p3 866 running 2.4 kernel that is crashing once every few > days leaving this on the console: > > > Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:31 2002 ... > localhost kernel: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004 > > Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:32 2002 ... > localhost kernel: Bank 4: b200000000040151 > > Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:32 2002 ... > localhost kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt > > > > Word on the street is that this indicates hardware failure of some kind > (cpu, bus, or memory). My main question is, is that very surely the > culprit, or is it also possible that all of the hardware is perfect and > that a bug in the kernel code or some outside influence (remote exploit) > is causing this crash ? > > Basically, I am ordering all new hardware to swap out, and I just want to > know if there is some remote possibility that my hardware is actually just > fine and this is some kind of software error ? > > ALSO, I have not been physically at the console when this has happened, > and have not tried this yet, but whatever that thing is where you press > ctrl-alt-printscreen and get to enter those post-crash commands - do you > think that would work in this situation, or does the above error hard lock > the system so you can't do those emergency measures ? > > thanks! > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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