Why mcelogd fails to start with "AMD Processor family XX: Please load edac_mce_amd module. CPU is unsupported"?
Issue
- mcelogd fails to start with:
[root@example]# /etc/init.d/mcelogd start
Starting mcelog daemon [FAILED]
AMD Processor family 16: Please load edac_mce_amd module.
CPU is unsupported
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3 or greater
- mcelog-1.0pre3_20110718-0.14.el6 or greater
- AMD CPU family 16 or greater
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