On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 16:04 -0300, Paulo Ricardo Paz Vital wrote: > Hello fellows, > > I have a dual PowerMac G4 (described below in /proc/cpuinfo) and for a > few months it has presenting some problems. When I am operating the > machine, is presented in gkrellm that the processor #1 stops > operating. This crash presents two different scenes: (1) the processor > #1 stops but the processor #0 operates normally, supporting all > amount of work; and (2) the two processors stops and I need reboot the > machine. > > I'm using the kernel version 2.6.8 and this same problem occur in > other kernel versions and in Mac OS X, too. > > Verifying /var/log/messages, I can see this anormal message: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > /var/log/messages: > May 30 11:20:23 falcao kernel: Machine check in kernel mode. > May 30 11:20:23 falcao kernel: Caused by (from SRR1=20009030): L1 Data > Cache error > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > I did some searches using Google, but I didn't find a solution for > this problem. I suppose disabling the processor #1, I can solve this > problem. So, how can I disable one of my dual processors?? Or, how can > I solve this problem :-D ??
Looks like one of your processors is indeed broken. Try booting with maxcpus=1 on the kernel command line (and hope that's not CPU0 that is dead). Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
