<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7654.12"> <TITLE>RE: mcelog error</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Dear Matthew, Thanks for the suggestion. I just checked and I do have a kernel update that needs to be applied and rebooted. I will try this tomorrow. Sounds like that should resolve the issue. Denise Denise Lopez Sr. Linux Systems Engineer UCLA Center for Digital Humanities 337 Charles E. Young Drive East PAB 1020 Los Angeles, CA 90095 310-206-8216 -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Galgoci [<A HREF="mailto:mgalgoci@redhat.com">mailto:mgalgoci@redhat.com</A>] Sent: Tue 3/23/2010 3:27 PM To: redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com Cc: Lopez, Denise Subject: Re: mcelog error > Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:21:21 -0700 > From: "Lopez, Denise" <dlopez@humnet.ucla.edu> > Reply-To: redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com > To: redhat-sysadmin-list@redhat.com > Subject: mcelog error > > Hi all, > > I am getting the following mcelog error messages: > > mcelog: warning: 18446744073709551600 bytes ignored in each record > mcelog: consider an update > > I am running Fedora 11 and have updated all the packages. I have mcelog-0.7-4.fc11.x86_64 currently installed and yum says all packages are up to date when I run a yum update. > > Looks to me like the log file is just to large to parse. Any ideas how to clear it? > > Thanks in advance. > Denise That actually sounds like data structures for the mce record have changed size (increased) and the userspace mcelog daemon doesn't know about the extra info. Did you upgrade your kernel? -- Matthew Galgoci Network Operations Red Hat, Inc 919.754.3700 x43155 </BODY> </HTML>