Request for explanation of error message

[Robert Heller]

At Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:54:19 +0800 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hello.
> 
> Can someone please advise as to what the following error indicates?
> 
> The below is a subset of multiple repetitions of the error, with the
> number in the square brackets, immediately after the word "kernel",
> progressively increasing in each line.
> 
> The error message appearsat the command line console ( <CTRL><ALT><F1>
> ), and, in /var/log/syslog , from whence the extract is copied.
> 
> "
> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053210] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053216] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053219] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
> Jul 27 00:06:43 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332491.053221] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996887] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996893] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996896] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
> Jul 27 00:07:08 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332515.996898] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059307] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=00e8
> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059314] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer,
> id=00e8(Receiver ID)
> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059316] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0:   device [8086:a298] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
> Jul 27 00:07:28 bret-MD34045-2521 kernel: [332536.059318] pcieport
> 0000:00:1d.0:    [ 0] Receiver Error         (First)
> "
> 
> "
> uname -v
> #60-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 2 18:22:20 UTC 2019
> bret at bret-MD34045-2521:~$ uname -a
> Linux bret-MD34045-2521 4.15.0-55-generic #60-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 2
> 18:22:20 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> "
> 
> Whilst I do not know how to get uname to show the Ubuntu version
> number, the console shows it as 18.04.2 .

What does

lspci

display?

Specificly, what sort of device is at

00:1d.0

?

It looks like whatever is at the point of the PCI bus is having trouble.

Also: what does the dmesg command display?

> 
> 
> Thank you in anticipation.
> 

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