[fm-discuss] Machine check exception not processed

[Matty]

Howdy,

We had a Sun X2200 running Solaris 10 update 3 panic with the following message:

Dec 12 14:37:46 bar cpu.generic: [ID 369736 kern.warning] WARNING:
Machine-Check Exception in kernel mode
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar last message repeated 1 time
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar cpu.generic: [ID 642271 kern.warning] WARNING: 2
STAT 0xb60000000002018a ADDR 0x000000000000474b
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar genunix: [ID 843051 kern.info] NOTICE:
SUNW-MSG-ID: SUNOS-8000-0G, TYPE: Error, VER: 1, SEVERITY: Major
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar cpu.generic: [ID 369736 kern.warning] WARNING:
Machine-Check Exception in kernel mode
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar cpu.generic: [ID 642271 kern.warning] WARNING: 2
STAT 0xb60000000002017a ADDR 0x000000000000474b
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar unix: [ID 836849 kern.notice]
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar ^Mpanic[cpu2]/thread=ffffffffb9712440:
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar genunix: [ID 663943 kern.notice] Unrecoverable
Machine-Check Exception
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar unix: [ID 100000 kern.notice]
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar cpu.generic: [ID 369736 kern.warning] WARNING:
Machine-Check Exception in kernel mode
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar cpu.generic: [ID 642271 kern.warning] WARNING: 2
STAT 0xf60000000002018a ADDR 0x000000000000474b
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar unix: [ID 836849 kern.notice]
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar ^Mpanic[cpu2]/thread=ffffffffb9712440:
Dec 12 14:37:46 bar genunix: [ID 663943 kern.notice] Unrecoverable
Machine-Check Exception
Dec 12 14:37:47 bar unix: [ID 100000 kern.notice]
Dec 12 14:37:47 bar cpu.generic: [ID 369736 kern.warning] WARNING:
Machine-Check Exception in kernel mode
Dec 12 14:37:47 bar cpu.generic: [ID 642271 kern.warning] WARNING: 2
STAT 0xf60000000002011a ADDR 0x000000000000474b
Dec 12 14:37:47 bar unix: [ID 836849 kern.notice]
Dec 12 14:37:47 bar ^Mpanic[cpu2]/thread=ffffffffb9712440:
Dec 12 14:37:47 bar genunix: [ID 663943 kern.notice] Unrecoverable
Machine-Check Exception
Dec 12 14:37:47 bar unix: [ID 100000 kern.notice]

Does anyone happen to know why FMA isn't able to diagnose whatever the
underlying problem is? SUNOS-8000-0G doesn't really provide any
details.

Thanks for any insight,
- Ryan
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