Debian Buster i386: CPU is going to die?! :(

[GabrieleMax]

Hi guys!

At startup my Debian Buster i386 shows:

[ 0.855172] Spectre V1 : Mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
[ 0.855180] Spectre V2 : Spectre mitigation: LFENCE not serializing, switching to generic retpoline
[ 0.855262] Spectre V2 : Mitigation: Full generic retpoline
[ 0.855264] Spectre V2 : Spectre v2 / SpectreRSB mitigation: Filling RSB on context switch
[ 0.855269] Speculative Store Bypass: Vulnerable
[ 0.868930] Freeing SMP alternatives memory: 24K
[ 0.875652] smpboot: weird, boot CPU (#0) not listed by the BIOS
[ 0.875661] smpboot: SMP disabled
[ 0.876257] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 0.876267] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 1: df0db814728c2424
[ 0.876338] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR 100a2ce0de0bfc68
[ 0.876399] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:642 TIME 1592131260 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 0
[ 0.876463] mce: [Hardware Error]: Machine check events logged
[ 0.876469] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 2: f60000000003ddab
[ 0.876525] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR 5d6b6c40f
[ 0.876581] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:642 TIME 1592131260 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 0
[ 0.876644] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 3: fc0000000000fdff
[ 0.876700] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR b3ff17f7f
[ 0.876756] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 2:642 TIME 1592131260 SOCKET 0 APIC 0 microcode 0
[ 0.877112] Performance Events:
[ 0.877123] no APIC, boot with the "lapic" boot parameter to force-enable it.
[ 0.877126] no hardware sampling interrupt available.
[ 0.877133] AMD PMU driver.
[ 7.622256] Unstable clock detected, switching default tracing clock to "global"
If you want to keep using the local clock, then add:
"trace_clock=local"
on the kernel command line
[ 7.629664] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 892K
[ 7.637579] Write protecting the kernel text: 6788k
[ 7.637792] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 2088k
[ 7.637799] Run /init as init process
[ 8.167514] Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M

But after few seconds the system goes up and works... is the processor (AMD Athlon 800) close to die?

GabrieleMax

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Have you installed the amd64-microcode package?

[GabrieleMax]

Have you installed the amd64-microcode package?

This is an AMD Athlon 800Mhz, it's a 32bit processor...

GabrieleMax

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Well yes but there is an i386 version for that package.

[arid]

Hey, aren't you the person with the ancient computers?

Floppy drive?

You cannot be serious!

Yes, my 2004 laptop whines about going too slow among other things when it boots up, but like yours, it gets there eventually.

If my 2004 laptop has a cd/dvd drive and no floppy, how old must yours be with just a floppy.

No microcode, macrocode or Davinci Code is going to help.

Your computers need to go to their final boot up in Silicon Heaven.

[GabrieleMax]

Well yes but there is an i386 version for that package.

I think this is the package amd64-microcode_3.20191218.1_i386.deb (I did Bullseye update) but... why the package's name is am64 and not amd32?

GabrieleMax

[GabrieleMax]

Hey, aren't you the person with the ancient computers?

Floppy drive?

You cannot be serious!

Yes, my 2004 laptop whines about going too slow among other things when it boots up, but like yours, it gets there eventually.

If my 2004 laptop has a cd/dvd drive and no floppy, how old must yours be with just a floppy.

No microcode, macrocode or Davinci Code is going to help.

Your computers need to go to their final boot up in Silicon Heaven.

I have two Abit KT7A raid, one with Athlon 800Mhz and another one with athlon 1200Mhz, both with 1,5gb ram, both with floppy drive, both are running Samba, OpenVPN, MariaDB, Vsftpd obviously without desktop and they work fine, now I don't need other power!

GabrieleMax

[p.H]

Well yes but there is an i386 version for that package.

Still, that package is only for AMD64 processors.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

Ah yes, of course, for people who have installed an i386 system but have a 64-bit processor. Thanks p.H and sorry to the OP.