Further investigation seems to indicate that these events should be handled by "mcelog" or "mced". However, there is no /var/log/mcelog, nor do I have a "mcelog" or "mced" binary, nor does yum seem to contain anything related (based on "yum whatprovides '*/mcelog'" and similar queries).
Thus, I still don't know what to do with these errors. Ignore them? I am running 32-bit CentOS 6.4 (legacy software reasons).
-G.
On Nov 25, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Glenn Eychaner geychaner@mac.com wrote:
On my new Haswell-based machines, I am occasionally seeing entries like the following in /var/log/messages: kernel: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged (I would not have even noticed them, except that they get flagged by logwatch.) These messages always occur alone, and don't seem to have a corresponding entry in any other log file in /var/log. How can I get more info about these messages?
-- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner@lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory