Any idea what this message means chaps?

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

I was happily tapping away when the notifications box popped this message up for my perusal,,

Message from syslogd@localhost at Sat May 5 15:48:05 2012 ...
localhost klogd: [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.

Message from syslogd@localhost at Sat May 5 15:48:05 2012 ...
localhost klogd: [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.

What does it mean chaps, any idea?

Many thanks

[AndrzejL]

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/hardware/461785-mce-decoder-support.html

Check this out.

And here: http://www.mcelog.org/faq.html

This is pretty much a bug in newer Linux kernels. They print this message on every corrected error, even though it's useless and also the decoding into the kernel log is not very useful because mcelog can aggregate the information much better. This is fixed with this patch.

Patch link: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=6e3c7411d2b86bff210c59caa432e8e862037bfd

What kernel are You running? Something from Testing repo?

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Well this is a new install on this box, so whatever kernel came with the live cd.  Thanks for the links, i'll go have a read up.

"Edit"

Here's an old post about it with the solution!

[AndrzejL]

Here means where?

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Hahaha it means here,

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=90832.0

Trouble is, try as i may i can't find my grub.conf file.  I have looked in /boot/grub/ but i can't find it.

[Just17]

Hahaha it means here,

http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=90832.0

Trouble is, try as i may i can't find my grub.conf file.  I have looked in /boot/grub/ but i can't find it.

That is because you don't have one.

PCLOS does not use such a file.

Grub uses  /boot/grub/menu.lst   in PCLOS.

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Ah i see!  Well tell me, would you expect that file to be empty, 'cos mine is.

[AndrzejL]

/boot/grub/menu.lst? No it wouldn't be empty . You should have boot stanzas in there .

[uggy]

Ah i see!  Well tell me, would you expect that file to be empty, 'cos mine is.

You have to view as root,  will appear "blank" if viewed as user

[Dreamofgilgamesh]

Ah, i have so much to learn!

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=e1e5232a-e3ba-4b37-9d1c-661931e6d675 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=6811e352-af30-4a44-b1e2-40665f4bc36b splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=e1e5232a-e3ba-4b37-9d1c-661931e6d675 quiet vmalloc=256M acpi=on resume=UUID=6811e352-af30-4a44-b1e2-40665f4bc36b
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=e1e5232a-e3ba-4b37-9d1c-661931e6d675 failsafe vmalloc=256M
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title memtest-4.20
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest-4.20 BOOT_IMAGE=memtest-4.20

Thank you very much.