mcelog 0.7 review

mcelog decodes machine check events (hardware errors) on x86-64 machines running a 64-bit Linux kernel. It should be run regularly

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 12K Developer: Andi Kleen

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mcelog decodes machine check events (hardware errors) on x86-64 machines running a 64-bit Linux kernel.

It should be run regularly as a cron job on any x86-64 Linux system (if it is not in the default packages on your x86-64 distribution, please complain to your distributor).

mcelog project can also decode machine check panic messages from console logs.

The latest x86-64 2.6 kernel won't log machine check errors to the kernel log anymore. You need this tool to decode them.

Create the device first.

mknod /dev/mcelog c 10 227

What's New in This Release:
Modifier command line options are now allowed after --ascii.
A decoded address is no longer printed twice for --ascii.
The SMBIOS anchor scan was fixed to work on more machines and no longer crashes when no anchor is found. --ascii reparsing of mcelog output was fixed.
NONE entries are not printed in SMBIOS.