[sles-beta] Experience with SLES11-SP3 Beta4

[urs.frey at post.ch]

Hi
I did install from scratch SLES11-SP3 Beta4 x86_64 on HP Proliant BL460c-Gen8 Intel Xeon E5-2660, BL465c-Gen8 AMD Opteron 6220, DL385-G5 AMD Opteron 2356 and VMware ESX 5i

Installation runs OK, no problems so far.
Still this mcelog message on console saying, that AMD CPU is unsupported.
Guess, BUG [Bug 807336] solution did not make it for Beta4..


Intel
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h05cni:~ # grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u
model name      : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2660 0 @ 2.20GHz
h05cni:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog stop
Shutting down mcelog...                                                                   done
h05cni:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog start
Starting mcelog...                                                                        done
h05cni:~ #


AMD
==========
h04szd:~ # grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u
model name      : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2356
h04szd:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog stop
Shutting down mcelog...                                                                          done
h04szd:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog start
Starting mcelog... CPU is unsupported
startproc:  exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/mcelog: 1
                                                                                                 failed
h04szd:~ # uname -a
Linux h04szd 3.0.70-0.9-default #1 SMP Tue Apr 2 13:01:38 UTC 2013 (25ae5d2) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
h04szd:~ #

h05cnh:~ # grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u
model name      : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6220
h05cnh:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog stop
Shutting down mcelog...                                              done
h05cnh:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog start
Starting mcelog... CPU is unsupported
startproc:  exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/mcelog: 1
                                                                     failed
h05cnh:~ # uname -a
Linux h05cnh 3.0.70-0.9-default #1 SMP Tue Apr 2 13:01:38 UTC 2013 (25ae5d2) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
h05cnh:~ #

h04syy:~ # grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u
model name      : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2356
h04syy:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog stop
Shutting down mcelog...                                                                                done
h04syy:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog start
Starting mcelog... CPU is unsupported
startproc:  exit status of parent of /usr/sbin/mcelog: 1
                                                                                                       failed
h04syy:~ # uname -a
Linux h04syy 3.0.70-0.9-default #1 SMP Tue Apr 2 13:01:38 UTC 2013 (25ae5d2) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
h04syy:~ #

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BUT, when taking the solution from BUG [Bug 807336] with the modified /etc/init.d/mcelog it does load the edac_mce_amd kernel module, and the this "unsupported message" is no longer there.
So for me this would solve the issue.

h05cnh:~ # grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u
model name      : AMD Opteron(TM) Processor 6220
h05cnh:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog stop
Shutting down mcelog...                                                                                                                 done
h05cnh:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog start
Starting mcelog... AMD CPU detected, loading edac_mce_amd                                                 done
h05cnh:~ #

h04syy:~ # grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u
model name      : Quad-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2356
h04syy:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog stop
Shutting down mcelog...                                                                                done
h04syy:~ # /etc/init.d/mcelog start
Starting mcelog... AMD CPU detected, loading edac_mce_amd                    done
h04syy:~ #

best regards


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