On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 19:15:26 +0000, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:41:36 -0400 > Gautam Thaker <gthaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I am running Fedora Core 8 w/ all the updates installed. The kernel > > version is 2.6.24.3-34.fc8 SMP. I have been using the system happily > > for about 2 months. I don't know just when, but in last week, the > > kernel sees only 1 of my 2 cores. I know i have run quite some time > > w/ 2 cores. I am not sure if this is related to some SW update or a > > bios problem (i loaded "defaults" in bios) or can the CPU actually > > break and be left w/ just 1 core? I do see a msg at start up, at very > > start, that says: > > > > i8042c: can not read CTR when initializing i8042. > > Thats a keyboard handling emulation bug in the BIOS, unrelated. Go into > the BIOS and turn off USB legacy emulation. However I don't think its > anything to do with your vanishing core You might see if 431882 looks to be the same bug. If it is then you will at least have a way to tell if things didn't work correctly early in the boot process so that you can reboot right away.
