On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 22:09, Michael D. Setzer II via users <
users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Have a old quad core system that I've had since Fedora 10 I believe.
> Recently, upgraded to Fedora 31, and it was still seeing all 4 cores.
>
> Run BOINC, and recently notice that it was only showing 3 cpus
> running? Machine is one of the 5 computers I have at house, but is
> headless and access remotely via VNC. Other systems all show the right
> number of cpus after updates, so not sure what might cause the issue.
> The results of lshw-gui shows the 4 cores, but the dmesg shows only
> CPU 0 - 2. Didn't notice this until the 5.7 kernel change, but not sure
> exactly which update caused the change.
>
> Any ideals what could fix this, or how to get specific reasons it might
> have happened. Other machines are newer, some dual and one other
> quad core. So, just this one??
>

There is a long thread that seems relevant:

https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg2221826.html

> This is not a 5.8-rc3 problem. Almost all AMD CPUs and APUs are
> looking like this.
> The only CPUs I own are getting that right is a dual EPYC box,
> everything else is broken
> regarding the right C/T & socket(s) count, and that probably bc is
> using NUAM [sic] code
> to have the info.


Hardware failure?
[   10.196935] k10temp 0000:00:18.3: unreliable CPU thermal sensor;
monitoring disabled

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lm_sensors for discussion of
this message.

Having seen too many older systems act up with failed capacitors, I'd
check the system board for bad capacitors and signs of overheating.

-- 
George N. White III
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