Package: mcelog Severity: wishlist After moving my system to a Xen kernel (linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-amd64), the device /dev/mcelog no longer exists and mcelog therefore doesn't work. I spent a while tracking this down and eventually discovered that the kernel has:
config X86_MCE bool "Machine check support" if EMBEDDED depends on !X86_64_XEN in arch/x86_64/Kconfig, which means X86_MCE is always disabled on Xen kernels. Apparently the MCE info is collected by the Xen hypervisor instead, and errors would appear in "xm dmesg". It might be useful to document this in README.Debian so others can avoid confusion. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.4 Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]