question on a kernal "uhhuh" message

[Paul Newell]

Dan Koehler wrote:
> At 04:14 PM 8/25/2008, you wrote:
>> Subject: question on a kernal "uhhuh" message
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Message-ID: <48B31A7A.6040309 at cs.cmu.edu>
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>>
>> While running a long "yum update", I got the following message in the
>> middle:
>>
>>     (367/406): cscope-15.6-2.fc9.i386.rpm                    | 141
>>     kB     00:01
>>     (368/406): gstreamer-p  86% |  20% |==        |  57 kB/s | 192
>>     kB     00:12 ETA
>>     Message from syslogd at chowder at Aug 25 11:55:03 ...
>>      kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason a1 on CPU 0.
>>
>>     Message from syslogd at chowder at Aug 25 11:55:03 ...
>>      kernel: You have some hardware problem, likely on the PCI bus.
>>
>>     Message from syslogd at chowder at Aug 25 11:55:03 ...
>>      kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
>>     (368/406): gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.19-2.fc9.i386.rpm | 929
>>     kB     00:12
>>     (369/406): exempi-2.0.1-1.fc9.i386.rpm                   | 297
>>     kB     00:03
>>
>> I am assuming that the second occurrence of "(368/406):
>> gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.19.2.fc9.i386.rpm" indicates that it did
>> finish that rpm given that the rpm_debug_check and Transaction Test
>> seemed to have passed.
>>
>> So, I am figuring this is my computer burping somewhere. Even though it
>> is trying to point me at my PCI bus, I do not know what test / diags I
>> should be running to find out if there really is a hardware problem and,
>> if so, where and then how to deal with it.
>>
>> Any suggestions appreciated ... if I can provide any more info, please
>> let me know what would be helpful.
>>
>> This is related to my prior email "update error on F9 -- round two" if
>> more context is needed.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Paul
>
> The last time I got one of these "dazed and confused" messages was 
> when I was running a Fedora distribution on a motherboard with 
> multiple PCI domains.  Do you get a "dazed and confused" message 
> during your boot process, or did it only show up during the yum update?
>
Dan:

Only during the yum update. To the best of my memory, I haven't seen a 
dazed and confused on this machine since I got it with FC5 back in 
mid-2006 ... but I could never get it connected to the net so this is 
the first time I have run yum on it.

Thanks,
Paul