mcelog error

[Matthew Galgoci]

> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:21:21 -0700
> From: "Lopez, Denise" <dlopez at humnet.ucla.edu>
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> 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?

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