Why do I see 'No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.' in logs at boot time?

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Issue

  • Why do I see the following errors in my /var/log/messages file and at boot time?

     [Hardware Error]: No human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type.
 [Hardware Error]: Run the message through 'mcelog --ascii' to decode.
 [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged

  • mcelog is generated but there is no output

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

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