On Fri, 2012-04-06 at 23:07 -0700, Steven Ihde wrote: > On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > More importantly, a machine check exception (MCE) indicates faulty > > hardware - this could be the processor, motherboard, memory (if it has > > ECC) or even an expansion card. Whatever it is, that is quite likely to > > be the cause of the problem and must be fixed before we do any > > investigation of software. You should find some record of the MCE in > > the kernel log which may provide a hint as to what is faulty. > > Thanks for responding. /var/log/mcelog contains a few cycles of > thermal events (like below), but nothing since Feb. 3. The most > recent crash was yesterday morning. Is the mention of MCE generated > by reportbug talking about this thermal event, reportbug just tells us whether the kernel detected an MCE (or any of several other problems). > or does that mean there is something more recent that's not showing up > in /var/log/mcelog? [...] I don't know. Fix the cooling first; your system is not going to be stable until you do that. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false.
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