Help understnading dmesg error, please

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Aug 4 17:14:37 UTC 2010


On 08/04/2010 08:00 AM, stan wrote:
> I have a Sun U40 that I use for my workstation. It's running the latest
> verion of Ubuntu, including the latest kernel released a few days agao. I
> am getting a continuing stream of the follwing erros in dmesg:
> 
> [ 2195.640074] EDAC MC1: CE - no information available: amd64_edacError
> Overflow
> [ 2196.650041]  Northbridge Error, node 1
> [ 2196.650049] K8 ECC error.
> [ 2196.650054] EDAC amd64 MC1: CE ERROR_ADDRESS= 0x17a4fa240
> [ 2196.650064] EDAC MC1: CE page 0x17a4fa, offset 0x240, grain 0, syndrome
> 0xa8, row 0, channel 0, label "": amd64_edac
> [ 
> 
> I have several more of these machines, and they do not seem to be getting
> these errors. Can any help me interpet what the kernel is trying to tell
> me?

See:
http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/edac.txt








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