[CentOS] dmesg and syslog errors in CentOS 6.4 on Dell R720 server

SilverTip257 wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 7:56 AM, mark <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>> On 09/28/13 14:39, SilverTip257 wrote:
>> > On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Kaushal Shriyan
>> > <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>wrote:
>> > <...snipped...>
>> >
>> > I suspect that the members of the CentOS list have either not
>> > experienced this problem, don't have the hardware you're using,
>> > or both are true.
>>
>> No, we have a few R720's. I've not seen that problem. Couple of things:
>>    1. I assume that the little LCD screen is blue - yes?
>>    2. If you boot from a rescue disk, or, for that matter, from the OMSA
>>         disk, do you see the same thing?
>
> The OP got a response from a fellow at Dell.
> I'm including the response below for the benefit of anyone on the CentOS
> list with PowerEdge R720s.
>
> <quote>
> From: <Srinivas_G_Gowda at Dell.com>
>
> Hello,
> There is noting to be alarmed with these "ACPI Error" messages,
>>> kernel: ACPI Error: No handler for Region [SYSI]
>>>....
>
> These messages could imply that there is no code support in CentOS6.4
> kernel to handle IPMI region of ACPI tables.
>
Now that I'm at work, I just grep'd /var/log/dmesg for ACPI Error, and I
see that we do get them. We've not seen any problems - the first one I
identified is *very* heavily used for web and database, and I can't
remember problems with it, so I'd say Dell's response was a good one.

         mark