Re: APIC error on CPU0

[Michael Buesch]

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On Tuesday 06 April 2004 02:57, you wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Apr 2004 23:35:59 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> >What does this kernel message mean?
> >
> >Apr  5 23:16:20 lfs kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 60(60)
> >Apr  5 23:16:31 lfs kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 60(60)
> >
> >kernel is 2.6.5 with reiser4 patch.
> 
> Send Illegal Vector and Receive Illegal Vector at the same time.
> This is more interesting than the usual 40(40) errors
> (just Receive Illegal Vector), since 60 implies that the
> CPU itself is the source of the bogus vector, whereas 40
> usually implies a crap mainboard.
> 
> My guess is that either your hardware (whatever it is,
> you didn't leave any clues) has problems with a noisy
> APIC bus, broken chipset, or something like that, or
> you enabled ACPI and the ACPI tables are crap.
> 
> In any event, Linux is probably not the source of the
> problem. You may need to run without I/O APIC ("noapic"
> kernel param), no ACPI-based PCI routing ("pci=noapci"),
> or completely without ACPI ("acpi=off").

Ok, thanks for this long explanation.
I think it's possible, that the reason is bad hardware.

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Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]

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