I've found the cause of these errors on my machine. All I need to do is remove the ohci1394 module ie: sudo modprobe -r ohci1394 and the messages immediately go away.
I haven't yet found a way to disable this module on bootup (blacklisting it doesn't prevent it from loading). So it appears to be a firewire issue? Ben Collins works on the Linux1394 project, perhaps he knows of the cause and correct fix? Manuel/Ralf: Does this remove your error messages as well? -- APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) https://launchpad.net/bugs/66900 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs