On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Paul Hartman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've just installed & compiled gentoo-sources-2.6.37 >> & am getting msgs in all my terminals >> >> Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18 14:32:38 2011 ... >> localhost kernel: [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support >> on this CPU type. >> >> Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Jan 18 14:32:38 2011 ... >> localhost kernel: [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' >> to decode. >> >> There seems to be no change in config options re MCE since 2.6.33 , >> the previous kernel, which doesn't suffer from this internal spam. >> My CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo. Everything else seems to be working ok. >> >> Does anyone have any idea what's going on ? > > No, but this seems possibly relevant: > > http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02069
And in the meantime you can perhaps boot with "nomce" kernel commandline parameter to make it stop trying.
