On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:00:23 +0000 Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi. After a long time away from Linux I'll be asking some newby-type > questions, so I'll apologise from the start. > > I have just installed the KDE Spin of FC27 to a four-year-old Lenovo > G510 laptop, with a 120GB drive installed. Dring bootup I'm seeing > messages about hardware failures. They don't linger long enough to > write them down, and boot.log appears to be empty (unless that's because > I'm logged in as user, not root). They mention > > TSC_Deadline > mce > dracut-pre-udev > > How desperate is this? Is it really telling me it's time to ditch that > laptop? here (after sleep mode, IINM): Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: Hardware event. This is not a software error. Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: MCE 0 Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: CPU 0 BANK 5 Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: MISC 38a0000086 ADDR ffb01fc0 Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: TIME 1518787341 Fri Feb 16 14:22:21 2018 Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: MCG status: Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: MCi status: Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: Uncorrected error Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: MCi_MISC register valid Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: MCi_ADDR register valid Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: Processor context corrupt Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: MCA: corrected filtering (some unreported errors in same region) Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: STATUS ae0000000040110a MCGSTATUS 0 Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: MCGCAP c09 APICID 0 SOCKETID 0 Feb 16 14:22:23 aw17 mcelog[2246]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 60 Do you see messages like the above? Try: journalctl -n 50000 I have errors along that line since 1.5 yrs or so, since I installed some Fedora the fist time on that machine. As long as no one tells me this is serious, and as long as I don't see smoke, fire, or sparks coming out of the computer, or hear strange noises from the machine: I won't care much. I'd start to care if hardware wasn't detected - things like that ... Regards -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
