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Dell XPS 13 9360 - lots of machine check exception-messages
Is anyone seeing lots of messages like this on a DELL XPS 13 9360?
I get this with any kernel I tried - Ubuntu 16.04.1 stock kernel, latest vanilla as well as mainline (both Ubuntu & Arch linux).
[ 0.041088] mce: CPU supports 8 MCE banks
[ 0.041097] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 179.824402] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 470.709754] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 6943.396310] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[10054.482683] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[10166.746861] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[11087.548612] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[12090.893965] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[12718.384254] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[13489.322288] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[14100.885807] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[15566.970294] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[16261.061946] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[17441.723740] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[24777.496754] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[27846.728994] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
Nothing reallly seems wrong though. It's just this darn message. Anyone else seeing them with dmesg|grep mce?
Yury Vidineev
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November 17th, 2016 11:00
Hi,
I have 9360 DE and haven't such messages in syslog. As I remember (I can be completely wrong) mce event - some event that logs in BIOS and you can see this event somehow (there should be some special tool for Linux)
Qoqnos
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November 17th, 2016 12:00
*** it! I was hoping it was just a software error, that is a kernel error on this particular hardware, but I guess something's wrong with the hardware then. I've run the BIOS diagnostics test, and it found no errors either...
beurle
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November 18th, 2016 02:00
I get them too. It seems you need mce logging setup to get more detail. I tried Fedora 25 Beta and they were there too, possibly causing ABRT traps. I wondering whether the kernel has trouble detecting the processor architecture.
Qoqnos
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November 18th, 2016 08:00
ah, good to know i'm not alone with this!
i'd be happy to look into logs and whatnot if someone tells me where to look.
beurle
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November 18th, 2016 16:00
I dont think the mce logging is installed by default on this distro, maybe
Qoqnos
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November 19th, 2016 02:00
Ah, thanks for the journalctl command. I don't understand most of this, but there are a bunch of funky things going on here:
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: Processor context corrupt
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCA: corrected filtering (some unreported errors in same region)
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: STATUS ee2000000040110a MCGSTATUS 0
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCGCAP c08 APICID 0 SOCKETID 0
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 142
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: mcelog: Family 6 Model 8e CPU: only decoding architectural errors
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: Hardware event. This is not a software error.
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCE 5
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: CPU 0 BANK 7
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MISC 4f880000086 ADDR fef1dbc0
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: TIME 1479546791 Sat Nov 19 10:13:11 2016
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCG status:
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCi status:
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: Error overflow
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: Uncorrected error
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCi_MISC register valid
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCi_ADDR register valid
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: Processor context corrupt
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCA: corrected filtering (some unreported errors in same region)
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: STATUS ee2000000040110a MCGSTATUS 0
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: MCGCAP c08 APICID 0 SOCKETID 0
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: CPUID Vendor Intel Family 6 Model 142
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: mcelog: warning: 16 bytes ignored in each record
nov 19 11:21:10 expis mcelog[22189]: mcelog: consider an update
Would be great if a Dell person would say whether there's anything to worry about here or not.
Yury Vidineev
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November 19th, 2016 09:00
I think best way is to ask support
OCmylife
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November 28th, 2016 11:00
I have this error too, on Arch Linux with kernel-4.8.10-r1. I think we have nothing to worry about, as the laptop runs really fine. In the next few days I will definetly give Gentoo a try and report back, as the issue exists there also with a self cofigured kernel.
abescully
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November 29th, 2016 06:00
I am seeing quite a few mce events with my new xps13-9360 as well.
1. Lots of "Processor context corrupt"/"Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error" messages. I seem to see them at each boot and on resume. I haven't seen any stability issues, however, but this message still makes me nervous.
2. Lots of "Processor 1 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled." events. It looks like the processor's thermal throttling kicks somewhere just above 96C, but the fan doesn't actually start spinning up in time to cool the CPU back down to avoid the thermal throttling. Once the fan does kick in, everything seems fine... until I'm idle for a bit and then start real work and it happens all over again.
I updated mcelog to v144 to see if I get any more detail, but I don't see any change.
bstecklum
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March 24th, 2017 09:00
This happens in particular with a bit more demanding fullscreen applications, e.g. Stellarium, Flash player etc. How does it come that even after quite a couple of reports there is no feedback from Dell?
Mr.Turtle
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May 8th, 2017 01:00
Hi guys, I had the same problem until yesterday. After upgrade the kernel to 4.11 (stable) version, all errors are gone. Hope that this can help you all :)
danyill
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May 14th, 2017 03:00
If Dell could confirm whether or not we should be concerned about that it would be helpful. I have a brand new Dell XPS 13 9360.
I cannot presently upgrade my kernel and need to know if this should result in a warranty claim or similar:
For example I get the following:
computer@computer-XPS-13-9360:~$ sudo journalctl -u mcelog
[sudo] password for computer:
-- Logs begin at Sat 2017-05-13 16:54:44 NZST, end at Sun 2017-05-14 21:11:58 NZST. --
May 13 16:54:46 computer-XPS-13-9360 systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Machine Check Exceptions (MCE) collector & decoder...
May 13 16:54:46 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1705]: Starting Machine Check Exceptions decoder: mcelog.
May 13 16:54:46 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 16:54:46 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 16:54:46 computer-XPS-13-9360 systemd[1]: Started LSB: Machine Check Exceptions (MCE) collector & decoder.
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 16:58:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 17:12:30 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 17:17:39 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 17:22:44 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 13 21:40:36 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 heated above trip temperature. Throttling enabled.
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Please check your system cooling. Performance will be impacted
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 1 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Processor 3 below trip temperature. Throttling disabled
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Running trigger `unknown-error-trigger'
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: Too many trigger children running already
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: warning: 24 bytes ignored in each record
May 14 18:09:26 computer-XPS-13-9360 mcelog[1783]: consider an update
Yury Vidineev
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July 24th, 2017 17:00
Hello,
I've expected new BIOS versions to be installed just an usual update via Ubuntu Software center. But it just doesn't show new versions and I have to install it's manually each time.
Is it an issue only with my installation (9360 DE)? Does anybody have BIOS updates via Ubuntu Software center?
Thanks
Yury Vidineev
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July 24th, 2017 17:00
Thanks for answer, Justin. But looks like I can't update it even as I usually did because this time update is not available here:
secure-lvfs.rhcloud.com/.../5ffdbc0d-f340-441c-a803-8439c8c0ae10
DELL-Justin C
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July 24th, 2017 17:00
@Yury Vidineev,
Thank you for your question.
For DE systems, Dell currently only supports the manual update method. Other community members might have other methods of system maintenance.