Fwd: MCE trouble booting Fedora 14

[Steve Dickson]

Does anybody have a clue as to what is happening....

tia,

steved.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: MCE trouble booting Fedora 14
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 10:54:28 -0400
From: Andy Adamson <andros at netapp.com>
To: Steve Dickson <steved at redhat.com>

Hi Steve

We are having trouble booting Fedora 14 on a 2.0 GHz Dual Quad Xeon machine. We tried using nomce on the kernel boot line with no luck. We're upgrading from RHEL5.2.

Any ideas? Should I try Fedora 13?

Thanks

-->Andy




> Unfortunately,  I am unable to load Fedora 14 into the client.  Due to I get
> this error message:
> 
> 
> [    0.788999] PROCESSOR 0:10676 TIME 1305061894 SOCKET 0 APIC 3
> [    0.788999] No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
> [    0.788999] Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
> [    0.788999] Some CPUs didn't answer in synchronization
> [    0.788999] This is not a software problem!
> [    0.788999] Machine check: Processor context corrupt
> [    0.788999] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal machine check on current CPU
> [    0.788999] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G   M
> 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64 #1
> [    0.788999] Call Trace:
> [    0.788999]  <#MC>  [<ffffffff8146729d>] panic+0x8b/0x10b
> [    0.788999]  [<ffffffff8101b589>] mce_panic+0x1c5/0x1e6
> [    0.788999]  [<ffffffff8101a669>] ? mce_rdmsrl+0x4f/0x95
> [    0.788999]  [<ffffffff8101be38>] do_machine_check+0x69b/0x775
> [    0.788999]  [<ffffffff810111a8>] ? mwait_idle+0x72/0x7b
> [    0.788999]  [<ffffffff8146981c>] machine_check+0x1c/0x30
> [    0.788999]  [<ffffffff810111a8>] ? mwait_idle+0x72/0x7b
> [    0.788999]  <<EOE>>  [<ffffffff81008325>] cpu_idle+0xaa/0xcc
> [    0.788999]  [<ffffffff81461ed6>] start_secondary+0x24d/0x28e
> [    0.788999] Rebooting in 30 seconds..