[CentOS] Machine check events

Tue Nov 26 12:44:59 UTC 2013
Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org>

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 09:25:55AM -0300, Glenn Eychaner wrote:
> 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).

You should have this package available:

% rpm -qi mcelog 
Name        : mcelog                       Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.0pre3_20120814_2                Vendor: CentOS
Release     : 0.6.el6                       Build Date: Thu Feb 21 20:52:19 2013
Install Date: Sat Mar  9 06:48:53 2013         Build Host: c6b8.bsys.dev.centos.org
Group       : System Environment/Base       Source RPM: mcelog-1.0pre3_20120814_2-0.6.el6.src.rpm
Size        : 116942                           License: GPLv2
Signature   : RSA/SHA1, Sat Feb 23 12:38:34 2013, Key ID 0946fca2c105b9de
Packager    : CentOS BuildSystem <http://bugs.centos.org>
URL         : http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/cpu/mce/mcelog.git
Summary     : Tool to translate x86-64 CPU Machine Check Exception data.
Description :
mcelog is a daemon that collects and decodes Machine Check Exception data
on x86-64 machines.

% rpm -ql mcelog
/etc/cron.hourly/mcelog.cron
/etc/mcelog/mcelog.conf
/etc/rc.d/init.d/mcelogd
/etc/sysconfig/mcelogd
/usr/sbin/mcelog
/usr/share/doc/mcelog-1.0pre3_20120814_2
/usr/share/doc/mcelog-1.0pre3_20120814_2/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/mcelog-1.0pre3_20120814_2/README
/usr/share/man/man8/mcelog.8.gz


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rgds
Stephen