Entries in syslog.log

[Darren Brown]

Can some explain what errors of the following format imply:

vmunix: Detected Low Priority Machine Check.
vmunix: LPMC type : SEDC (ECC-corrected single-bit error)
vmunix: Error Address : 0xa88b490

I seem to be getting them fairly regularly.

[melvyn burnard]

Looks lik eyou have a low level hardware error. Low Priority Machine Check. They are usually correctable hence the Low designation.
However if you are seeing lots of these I would suspect you have a problem that needs investigating by an engineer. Probably memory is at fault here.

[Darrel Louis]

Darren,

If you've STM or EMS running you can check what they recomment.
But I think that one of the memory banks needs to be replaced.
If you have a /var/tombstones directory check in the ts99 file if you have any error messages and from which date it is.

Darrel

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

Run stm, select memory and information on menu bar.

this will show how much memory is desactivated.

Call your support.

[Darren Brown]

Thanks for the comments, memmory is what I was thinking as well.

I never used STM, could anyone give me a pointer, when I run the information tool on memmory I get:

Information Tool Failure Log for MEMORY on path 63 file does not exist.

Is this due there not being enough space during boot-up to store tombstone logs or to some configuration setting?