Package: mcelog
Severity: wishlist
After moving my system to a Xen kernel (linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64),
the device /dev/mcelog no longer exists and mcelog therefore doesn't
work. I spent a while tracking this down and eventually discovered that
the kernel has:
config X86_MCE
bool "Machine check support" if EMBEDDED
depends on !X86_64_XEN
in arch/x86_64/Kconfig, which means X86_MCE is always disabled on
Xen kernels. Apparently the MCE info is collected by the Xen
hypervisor instead, and errors would appear in "xm dmesg". It might
be useful to document this in README.Debian so others can avoid
confusion.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.4
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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