[arch-general] mce after linux-3.11.5-1 on NP900X3C

Wed Nov 19 20:48:16 UTC 2014

On November 19, 2014 3:40:38 PM EST, Mark Lee <mark at markelee.com> wrote:
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>On 11/19/2014 12:15 PM, Rasmus Liland wrote:
>> On 2014-11-17 00:19, Rasmus Liland wrote:
>>> On 2014-11-15 18:28, Mark Lee wrote:
>>>> On 11/15/2014 12:20 PM, Rasmus Liland wrote:
>>>>> On 2014-11-15 15:21, LoneVVolf wrote:
>>>>>> On 15-11-14 06:57, Rasmus Liland wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2014-11-15 06:10, Mark Lee wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 11/14/2014 10:29 PM, Rasmus Liland wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 2014-11-15 04:01, Mark Lee wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Are you booting with the new intel u-code?
>>>>>>>>> Are you fairly sure this is a Intel microcode issue?
>>>>>>>> I'm not completely certain; but it would make sense.
>>>>>>>> I'd test it out.
>>>>>>> Thank you for your help thus far. I'll examine this
>>>>>>> further tomorrow, g'night.
>>>>>> From rasmus first post:
>>>>>>> I'm experiencing machine check exceptions since every
>>>>>>> kernel after package linux-3.11.5-1 (Oct 14 2013)
>>>>>> New intel microcode was only introduced with kernel 3.17
>>>>>> ... It's unlikely to have to do with this issue.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> install mcelog, run it as the log tells you and post the
>>>>>> result.
>>>>> [ ... output, see previous messages ... ] I never did use the
>>>>> mcelog tool before, but to me it looks like not much of an
>>>>> analysis, perhaps I'm doing it wrong.
>>>> Looks like a microcode error, please try to add the intel-ucode
>>>> to your kernel cmdline.
>>> Bah, just as I was finished enabling syslinux using
>>> syslinux-install_update and rebooted, the system did not respond,
>>> just a blank screen and lighting shutting off, then rebooting
>>> again.
>>> 
>>> Thus, this system needs an overhaul -- apparently some difficulty
>>> with the bootcode or the MBR, though I am able to mount the old
>>> partitions and chroot into them using arch-chroot.
>>> 
>>> I tried installing grub using the standard method grub-install
>>> according to the wiki, with little success -- some good news at
>>> least relevant to previous topic in this thread is that grub
>>> recognized and added the intel-ucode file I had copied to the
>>> /boot directory, when running grub-mkconfig.
>>> 
>>> The plan forward is to forget about generating new mbr using
>>> gpart and install Debian at the end of the disk to, hopefully,
>>> restore some boot related stuff that might have come crashing
>>> down after meddling with syslinux.
>> 
>> A breakthrough in this thread has happened.
>> 
>> I ended up taking a backup of the disk to an external hdd using
>> 
>>> # dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/angrist-sda-18nov14.img
>> 
>> then I booted FreeBSD 10.1 memstick, entered shell and entered some
>> commands:
>> 
>>> # gpart delete -i 1 ada0 # gpart delete -i 2 ada0 # gpart delete
>>> -i 3 ada0 # gpart destroy ada0 # gpart create -s mbr ada0 # gpart
>>> add -s 20g -t linux-data ada0 # gpart add -t linux-data ada0
>> 
>> Then I rebooted into ArchLinux iso memstick to install Arch on the
>> 20G partition and using the other one as /home. So now Syslinux
>> works, unfortunately I don't know why. And I was able to install
>> all new packages including linux 3.17.3-1 and intel-ucode
>> 20140913-1, loading it in Syslinux according to the wiki.
>> 
>> I got a new mce after exactly three hours:
>> 
>>> [10827.051523] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 1: Machine Check
>>> Exception: 5 Bank 4: b200000000100402 Increasing limit for this
>>> warning to that value arg [10827.051632] mce: [Hardware Error]:
>>> RIP !INEXACT! 10:<ffffffff81321387> {intel_idle+0xe7/0x180} 
>>> [10827.055440] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 2238c73db17 
>>> [10827.059291] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306a9 TIME
>>> 1416411506 SOCKET 0 APIC 1 microcode 1b [10827.063192] mce:
>>> [Hardware Error]: Run the above through 'mcelog --ascii' 
>>> [10827.067078] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 3: Machine Check
>>> Exception: 5 Bank 4: b200000000100402 [10827.070986] mce:
>>> [Hardware Error]: RIP !INEXACT! 10:<ffffffff81321387>
>>> {intel_idle+0xe7/0x180} [10827.074899] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC
>>> 2238c73db43 [10827.078769] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR
>>> 0:306a9 TIME 1416411506 SOCKET 0 APIC 3 microcode 1b 
>>> [10827.082673] mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above through
>>> 'mcelog --ascii' [10827.086569] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 2:
>>> Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 4: b200000000100402 
>>> [10827.090503] mce: [Hardware Error]: RIP !INEXACT!
>>> 10:<ffffffff812ab186> {intel_sqrt+0x36/0x50} [10827.094415] mce:
>>> [Hardware Error]: TSC 2238c73db28 [10827.098299] mce: [Hardware
>>> Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306a9 TIME 1416411506 SOCKET 0 APIC 2
>>> microcode 1b [10827.102242] mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above
>>> through 'mcelog --ascii' [10827.106182] mce: [Hardware Error]:
>>> CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: 5 Bank 4: b200000000100402 
>>> [10827.110177] mce: [Hardware Error]: RIP !INEXACT!
>>> 10:<ffffffff81321387> {intel_idle+0xe7/0x180} [10827.114143] mce:
>>> [Hardware Error]: TSC 2238c73db06 [10827.118038] mce: [Hardware
>>> Error]: PROCESSOR 0:306a9 TIME 1416411506 SOCKET 0 APIC 0
>>> microcode 1b [10827.122028] mce: [Hardware Error]: Run the above
>>> through 'mcelog --ascii' [10827.126037] mce: [Hardware Error]:
>>> Machine check: Processor context corrupt [10827.130076] Kernel
>>> panic - not syncing: Fatal Machine check [10827.134149] Kernel
>>> Offset: 0x0 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range:
>>> 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffff9fffffff) [10827.136647]
>>> drm_kms_helper: panic occured, switching back to text console 
>>> [10827.163009] Rebooting in 30 seconds.. [10857.234707] ACPI
>>> MEMORY or I/O RESET_REG.
>> 
>> I am also making this output an attachment. There is a lot of more 
>> information in this new mce compared to the other one I sent.
>> 
>> Perhaps some of you got some new suggestions.
>> 
>> Meanwhile, I am downgrading back to 3.11.5-1.
>> 
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>To Rasmus,
>
>Can you run the parts where it says "run the abvoe through mcelog
>- --ascii" and post the contents?
>
>Regards,
>Mark
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I may have had a similar error, but I can't remember the details. Have you checked if your hardware clock is synchronized? It fixed my kernel panic issues.
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