MCA messages in dmesg

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Thu Sep 30 16:33:27 UTC 2010


On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:40 AM, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, September 30, 2010 2:49:24 am Adam Vande More wrote:
> > For awhile now, my home server has been acting up.  Actually it had a bad
> > set of RAM long ago, replaced and it and worked fine.  It's been weird
> again
> > now, and I've found this in dmesg:
> >
> > MCA: Bank 0, Status 0xf200000000000800
> > MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000806, Status 0x0000000000000000
> > MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID 0x6fb, APIC ID 2
> > MCA: CPU 2 UNCOR PCC OVER BUSL0 Source ERR Memory
> > MCA: Bank 0, Status 0xf200000000000800
> > MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000000000806, Status 0x0000000000000000
> > MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID 0x6fb, APIC ID 3
> > MCA: CPU 3 UNCOR PCC OVER BUSL0 Source ERR Memory
>
> Are you getting a panic when this happens?
>

It's symptoms vary, but yes I think so.  The box is headless, so I depend on
logs after boot to see what happens.  Sometimes the box panics and powers
off with no warning, and other times it just seems to hit a stall state
where everything become unresponsive and I have to manually power off.

-- 
Adam Vande More


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