Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-19 Thread Stephen Morris
On 19/2/18 3:29 pm, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: Just following on from this, is my setup strange when I have never found boot.log to be empty and on my system it currently has mountains of entries? Oops. The machine I'm working on now does have a bo

Re: Hardware Errors

2018-02-19 Thread Anne Wilson
hardware error > of some kind. See 'man mcelog'. It does look 'prima facie' like there > may be a problem with your machine, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to > tell you what it is. > > However see > https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?314118

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 19 February 2018, Stephen Morris sent: > Just following on from this, is my setup strange when I have never > found boot.log to be empty and on my system it currently has > mountains of entries? Oops. The machine I'm working on now does have a boot.log, my prior ones didn't

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 08:36:02 +1100 Stephen Morris wrote: > On 18/2/18 7:45 pm, Tim wrote: > > Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, Anne Wilson sent: > >> They don't linger long enough to write them down, and boot.log > >> appears to be empty (unless that's because I'm logged in as user, not

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Stephen Morris
On 18/2/18 7:45 pm, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, Anne Wilson sent: They don't linger long enough to write them down, and boot.log appears to be empty (unless that's because I'm logged in as user, not root). The logging is done by the system, not you. Reading logs may req

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-18 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 17 February 2018, Anne Wilson sent: > They don't linger long enough to write them down, and boot.log > appears to be empty (unless that's because I'm logged in as user, not > root). The logging is done by the system, not you. Reading logs may require you to be root, but it

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-17 Thread Rami Rosen
Hi, Anne, I have a question: does the boot completes and you reach the login screen ? ( or terminal if you are in non x mode) ? Or are you dropped to some sort of dracut or a maintenace mode ? Generally, as one of the replies mentions, there are sometimes errors messages that you can ignore. Rega

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-17 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:00:23 + Anne Wilson wrote: > Hi. After a long time away from Linux I'll be asking some newby-type > questions, so I'll apologise from the start. > > I have just installed the KDE Spin of FC27 to a four-year-old Lenovo > G510 laptop, with a 120GB drive installed. Drin

Re: Hardware Errors

2018-02-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
ith your machine, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to tell you what it is. However see https://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?314118-MCE-hardware-errors-on-boot-on-new-machine wherein similar problems have been cured by updating the firmware. poc _

Re: Hardware Errors

2018-02-17 Thread Anne Wilson
On 17/02/2018, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Try 'journalctl -k -b' to see kernel > messages since the most recent boot (Fabricated quote, as I never received your message in TBird. Sorted now, I think.) Hi, Patrick. Tried that, resulting: mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: M mce: [Hardware Error]:

Re: Hardware errors

2018-02-17 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2018-02-17 at 13:00 +, Anne Wilson wrote: > Hi. After a long time away from Linux I'll be asking some newby-type > questions, so I'll apologise from the start. > > I have just installed the KDE Spin of FC27 to a four-year-old Lenovo > G510 laptop, with a 120GB drive installed. Dring

Hardware errors

2018-02-17 Thread Anne Wilson
Hi. After a long time away from Linux I'll be asking some newby-type questions, so I'll apologise from the start. I have just installed the KDE Spin of FC27 to a four-year-old Lenovo G510 laptop, with a 120GB drive installed. Dring bootup I'm seeing messages about hardware failures. They don't

Re: What is causing these hardware errors?

2017-07-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2017-07-22 at 10:35 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Sat, 2017-07-22 at 00:47 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 06:08 -0700, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: > > > I am getting this block of messages put into /var/log/messages > > > every few minutes (or seconds) since

Re: What is causing these hardware errors?

2017-07-22 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, 2017-07-22 at 00:47 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 06:08 -0700, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: > > I am getting this block of messages put into /var/log/messages > > every few minutes (or seconds) since I received this laptop and > > installed F25. The install is updated

Re: What is causing these hardware errors?

2017-07-21 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 06:08 -0700, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: > I am getting this block of messages put into /var/log/messages > every few minutes (or seconds) since I received this laptop and > installed F25. The install is updated as of two days ago. > Macine is a new Dell Precision 7520. > > Wha

Re: What is causing these hardware errors?

2017-07-21 Thread Mike Wright
On 07/21/2017 06:41 AM, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: On 07/21/2017 06:27 AM, Mike Wright wrote: On 07/21/2017 06:08 AM, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: I am getting this block of messages put into /var/log/messages every few minutes (or seconds) since I received this laptop and installed F25. The instal

Re: What is causing these hardware errors?

2017-07-21 Thread Sherman Grunewagen
On 07/21/2017 06:27 AM, Mike Wright wrote: On 07/21/2017 06:08 AM, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: I am getting this block of messages put into /var/log/messages every few minutes (or seconds) since I received this laptop and installed F25. The install is updated as of two days ago. Macine is a new De

Re: What is causing these hardware errors?

2017-07-21 Thread Mike Wright
On 07/21/2017 06:08 AM, Sherman Grunewagen wrote: I am getting this block of messages put into /var/log/messages every few minutes (or seconds) since I received this laptop and installed F25. The install is updated as of two days ago. Macine is a new Dell Precision 7520. Jul 21 02:48:53 new_pons

What is causing these hardware errors?

2017-07-21 Thread Sherman Grunewagen
I am getting this block of messages put into /var/log/messages every few minutes (or seconds) since I received this laptop and installed F25. The install is updated as of two days ago. Macine is a new Dell Precision 7520. What does this mean? Do I have a defective CPU? -Sherman Jul 21 02:48:53