Fedora Troubleshooting

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Error Message:

Error message here

Description: Description and details of scenario here.

Solution: How to fix or work around the error here.

Mcelog does not support this processor. Please use the edac_mce_amd module instead

Error Message:

ERROR: AMD Processor family 23: mcelog does not support this processor. Please use the edac_mce_amd module instead.

Description: After installing Fedora on a system with an AMD processor, the mcelog service will fail to start with this error message:

ERROR: AMD Processor family 23: mcelog does not support this processor. Please use the edac_mce_amd module instead.

Solution:

This error can be ignored as it is semi misleading and the edac_mce_amd module is loaded after this error is triggered. See this bug report from Redhat for more info: > The error probably should be downgraded to a simple warning and can be safely ignored without any loss of functionality, because the edac_mce_amd module, which is loaded right after issuing the error, directly implements the mc errors logging functionality in those AMD cpus which are incompatible with the mcelog daemon. > > Here is the information source. > > At this point the severity of this bug shoud drop to “low” since it is mereley a cosmetic issue. > > Source: 1069652 – mcelog AMD Processor family 16: Please load edac_mce_amd module (redhat.com)