Re: Hardware Errors

[Anne Wilson]

On 17/02/2018, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  Try 'journalctl -k -b' to see kernel
>  messages since the most recent boot 
(Fabricated quote, as I never received your message in TBird.  Sorted
now, I think.)

Hi, Patrick.  Tried that, resulting:

mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: M
mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 AD
mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSO

It's hard to be sure whether anything is not working correctly.  I am
having problems getting my mind back into linux mode. As you say, much
has changed in recent years, apart from my increasing lapses of memory.

Anne

Hardware Errors

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2018-02-17 at 17:33 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
>  On 17/02/2018, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  > Try 'journalctl -k -b' to see kernel
>  > messages since the most recent boot
>  
>  (Fabricated quote, as I never received your message in TBird.  Sorted
>  now, I think.)
>  
>  Hi, Patrick.  Tried that, resulting:
>  
>  mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: M
>  mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 AD
>  mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSO
>  
>  It's hard to be sure whether anything is not working correctly.  I am
>  having problems getting my mind back into linux mode. As you say, much
>  has changed in recent years, apart from my increasing lapses of memory. 
MCE is a Machine Check Error, with is Intel-speak for a hardware error
of some kind. See 'man mcelog'. It does look 'prima facie' like there
may be a problem with your machine, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to
tell you what it is.

However see
https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?314118-MCE-hardware-errors-...
wherein similar problems have been cured by updating the firmware.

poc

Hardware Errors

[Anne Wilson]

On 17/02/2018 17:49, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>  On Sat, 2018-02-17 at 17:33 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On 17/02/2018, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> Try 'journalctl -k -b' to see kernel
> >> messages since the most recent boot
> >
> > (Fabricated quote, as I never received your message in TBird.  Sorted
> > now, I think.)
> >
> > Hi, Patrick.  Tried that, resulting:
> >
> > mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: M
> > mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 AD
> > mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSO
> >
> > It's hard to be sure whether anything is not working correctly.  I am
> > having problems getting my mind back into linux mode. As you say, much
> > has changed in recent years, apart from my increasing lapses of memory.
>  
>  MCE is a Machine Check Error, with is Intel-speak for a hardware error
>  of some kind. See 'man mcelog'. It does look 'prima facie' like there
>  may be a problem with your machine, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to
>  tell you what it is.
>  
>  However see
> https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?314118-MCE-hardware-errors-...
>  wherein similar problems have been cured by updating the firmware.
>   
Might have to - but that's not a job to be taken lightly.  I'll wait for
a time with a clear head :-)

Anne