Bug#647888: mcelog does not start at boot time

[Christoph Pleger]

Hello,

> - check your logs for messages from mcelog during system startup
> - see if the problem also exists with Squeeze's standard kernel
> - see if mcelog from sid fixes the problem with your current kernel

1. The relevant lines from syslog is:

Nov  8 10:13:56 fiws117 mcelog: mcelog read: No such device

2. The problem does not exist in standard kernel.

3. In my sources.list, I replaced squeeze with sid, ran an apt-get update
and executed apt-get install mcelog. This did not install a newer version
of mcelog, so I guess that there is no newer version.

I found out, that (like in so many other cases) this is once again a
timing problem with udev, i.e. some service tries to access a device
before udev has created the corresponding node. Simply adding 'udevadm
settle' in /etc/init.d/mcelog somewhere before calling start-stop-daemon
solves the problem.

Regards
  Christoph



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Bug#647888: mcelog does not start at boot time

[Julien BLACHE]

"Christoph Pleger"  wrote:

Hi,

> on my machine, mcelog is not started at boot time (or crashes immediately),
> though the rc links are set. It pretends to start and shows "Starting Machine
> Check Exceptions decoder: mcelog." without any error message, but calling
> 'pidof mcelog' afterwards shows no process.

Could you:
 - check your logs for messages from mcelog during system startup
 - see if the problem also exists with Squeeze's standard kernel
 - see if mcelog from sid fixes the problem with your current kernel

Thanks,

JB.

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Bug#647888: mcelog does not start at boot time

[Christoph Pleger]

Package: mcelog
Version: 1.0~pre3-3
Severity: normal

Hello,

on my machine, mcelog is not started at boot time (or crashes immediately),
though the rc links are set. It pretends to start and shows "Starting Machine
Check Exceptions decoder: mcelog." without any error message, but calling
'pidof mcelog' afterwards shows no process.

After booting, when I execute '/etc/init.d/mcelog start' manually, it starts
successfully.

Regards
  Christoph

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.39-bpo.2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages mcelog depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.36.1   Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6 2.11.2-10  Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  makedev   2.3.1-89   creates device files in /dev
ii  udev  164-3  /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

mcelog recommends no packages.

mcelog suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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