Spooky mcelog messages: MCA: Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error
New error message haunting my fresh Debian Lenny installation
In mid-June I installed Debian Lenny onto an old HP DL380 of ours. Since then there has been six of these Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error messages.
MCE 0
HARDWARE ERROR. This is *NOT* a software problem!
Please contact your hardware vendor
CPU 6 BANK 3 TSC 1e600ed894af4
ADDR 1719edeb0
MCG status:
MCi status:
Error enabled
MCi_ADDR register valid
MCA: Generic CACHE Level-2 Generic Error
STATUS 942000420001010a MCGSTATUS 0
Shortly after installing Debian, I also dropped in a second quad core CPU and doubled the RAM to 8GB. Coincidence? Probably not. Then again, I don't have ready access to the old RHEL4 system logs. (They are with our old hosting vendor.)
What exactly does this mean? Is it a recoverable condition? Is it a warning sign of future problems to come?
Spooky.