From: Ant on
On 3/13/2010 9:18 PM PT, Robert Redelmeier typed:

>> Hmm, lsmod |grep acpid showed nothing.
>
> It won't -- acpid is a daemon, not a module.
> It shows on the process taks list (ps/top), not lsmod .
>
> But it is unlikely to be the cause if cpufreq modules
> aren't loaded.

Ah OK. Here you go after uninstalling acpid:

# ps aux |grep acpi
root 22 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar12 0:00 [kacpid]
root 23 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar12 0:00
[kacpi_notify]
root 24 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S Mar12 0:00
[kacpi_hotplug]
108 2632 0.0 0.0 3240 1084 ? S Mar12 0:00
hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket

Don't know where kapci is coming from. Kernel?
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From: Robert Redelmeier on
Ant <ant(a)zimage.comant> wrote in part:
> Don't know where kapci is coming from. Kernel?

Yes. rmmod anything that looks like apci.
You can Google AMD MCE ACPI ERRATA .

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From: Ant on
On 3/14/2010 8:19 AM PT, Robert Redelmeier typed:

>> Don't know where kapci is coming from. Kernel?
>
> Yes. rmmod anything that looks like apci.
> You can Google AMD MCE ACPI ERRATA .

OK if I still need to dig deeper. It had been almost seven hours
(including losing an hour from PST to PDT change) and no new errors in
logs. Maybe we hit the jackpot. Crossing my antennae. ;)

Maybe I should reboot/readd these modules later too because of rmmod
earlier:
rmmod cpufreq_powersave
rmmod cpufreq_userspace
rmmod cpufreq_stats
rmmod cpufreq_conservative
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On 3/14/2010 9:17 AM PT, Ant typed:

> OK if I still need to dig deeper. It had been almost seven hours
> (including losing an hour from PST to PDT change) and no new errors in
> logs. Maybe we hit the jackpot. Crossing my antennae. ;)

Nope, my luck failed (dangit!):

[134549.988029] Machine check events logged

Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar kernel: [134549.988029] Machine check events logged
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software
problem!
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: Please contact your hardware vendor
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: MCE 0
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: CPU 1 1 instruction cache
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: ADDR c11b6ff0
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: TIME 1268601563 Sun Mar 14 14:19:23 2010
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: TLB parity error in virtual array
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: TLB error 'instruction transaction,
level 1'
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: STATUS 9400000000010011 MCGSTATUS 0
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: MCGCAP 105 APICID 1 SOCKETID 0
Mar 14 14:19:23 foobar mcelog: CPUID Vendor AMD Family 15 Model 43
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On 3/14/2010 8:19 AM PT, Robert Redelmeier typed:

>> Don't know where kapci is coming from. Kernel?
>
> Yes. rmmod anything that looks like apci.
> You can Google AMD MCE ACPI ERRATA .

I am not familiar with hardwares and don't know what other modules to
remove:
$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
binfmt_misc 4875 1
ppdev 4058 0
lp 5570 0
parport 22554 2 ppdev,lp
vboxnetadp 5154 0
vboxnetflt 10202 0
vboxdrv 114333 2 vboxnetadp,vboxnetflt
xt_tcpudp 1743 92
xt_limit 1088 2
nf_conntrack_ipv4 7597 59
nf_defrag_ipv4 779 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
xt_state 927 59
ipt_LOG 3570 2
ipt_REJECT 1517 2
nf_conntrack_irc 2499 0
nf_conntrack_ftp 4260 0
nf_conntrack 37775 4
nf_conntrack_ipv4,xt_state,nf_conntrack_irc,nf_conntrack_ftp
iptable_filter 1790 1
ip_tables 7690 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 8335 6
xt_tcpudp,xt_limit,xt_state,ipt_LOG,ipt_REJECT,ip_tables
dm_snapshot 17953 0
dm_mirror 9639 0
dm_region_hash 5612 1 dm_mirror
dm_log 6369 2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
dm_mod 45854 3 dm_snapshot,dm_mirror,dm_log
hwmon_vid 1528 0
fuse 43554 1
loop 9721 0
snd_intel8x0 19523 1
snd_ac97_codec 79136 1 snd_intel8x0
ac97_bus 710 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 28479 0
snd_mixer_oss 10461 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 47350 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_midi 3480 0
snd_rawmidi 12313 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 3684 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 35303 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 12258 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 3673 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
snd 33551 11
snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
soundcore 3450 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 4977 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
evdev 5609 7
pcspkr 1207 0
nvidia 9712528 38
agpgart 19516 1 nvidia
serio_raw 2916 0
psmouse 44409 0
i2c_nforce2 4464 0
k8temp 2411 0
i2c_core 12612 2 nvidia,i2c_nforce2
processor 25803 0
ext3 93828 9
jbd 31965 1 ext3
mbcache 3762 1 ext3
usbhid 26784 2
hid 50545 1 usbhid
ide_cd_mod 21044 0
cdrom 26487 1 ide_cd_mod
ide_gd_mod 17103 12
ohci_hcd 16804 0
ide_pci_generic 1924 0
ata_generic 2015 0
amd74xx 3552 11
ehci_hcd 27230 0
e100 22217 0
floppy 40923 0
mii 2714 1 e100
sata_nv 15386 0
button 3598 0
libata 113728 2 ata_generic,sata_nv
ide_core 63850 4
ide_cd_mod,ide_gd_mod,ide_pci_generic,amd74xx
scsi_mod 101073 1 libata
forcedeth 40709 0
usbcore 97930 6 usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
nls_base 4541 1 usbcore
thermal 9206 0
fan 2586 0
thermal_sys 9378 3 processor,thermal,fan
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