mcelog update

Joe Christy joe at eshu.net
Tue Mar 23 14:55:27 UTC 2010


   Vis-a-vis your note of 2010-03-23 07:21:
> Since my 8 fedora 11 hosts did their March 20 update of mcelog I have
> been getting hourly e-mails from cron on each host with the text :
>
> /etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron:
>
> mcelog: warning: 18446744073709551600 bytes ignored in each record
> mcelog: consider an update
>...

	You're not alone. The mcelog "fix" was apparently based on the mistaken 
assumption that kernel 2.6.32  was the F11 stable kernel. A kludge to 
unfix the fix for the actual 2.6.30 F11 stable kernel is promised Real 
Soon Now, cf. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570859. Sigh.

	Joe


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