On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:55 PM, pants <pants@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just upgraded my machine to the new kernel this morning, and was > greeted by a kernel panic coming out of the shower. Unfortunately, > nothing was logged to the disk, so I have nothing to share here, which > probably makes this email near useless. > > However, it is worth noting that after forcing the system down and > powering it on again, I was greeted with "MACHINE CHECK ERROR" after the > BIOS splash, followed by a boot cycle which would again stop at this > point. After turning the machine off again for a while, I powered it on > with no difficulty and was able to boot into arch. > > Any input would be greatly appreciated. I'm no kernel dev, but that sounds like a hardware issue to me. =-Jameson
