Re: "APIC error on CPUx" - what does this mean?

[Ryan Cumming]

On January 3, 2002 11:55, Steve Snyder wrote:
> I just noticed the following events in my system log:
>
>   Jan  3 14:03:39 mercury kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(02)
>   Jan  3 14:03:39 mercury kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 00(02)
>
> Below I've listed the CPU/APIC-related parts of my system start-up.

I occasionaly get the same errors on my UP XP1800+ on a KT133A MB, except 
they look like this:
APIC error on CPU0: 08(02)
APIC error on CPU0: 02(08)

uname -a:
Linux phalynx 2.4.17 #8 Wed Dec 26 20:41:16 PST 2001 i686 unknown

/proc/interrupts:
           CPU0
  0:   66440674    IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:     378128    IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  8:          2    IO-APIC-edge  rtc
  9:   13768184   IO-APIC-level  eth0
 10:        131   IO-APIC-level  usb-uhci, usb-uhci
 11:   22007511   IO-APIC-level  EMU10K1
 12:   10497666    IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
 14:    3717339    IO-APIC-edge  ide0
 15:      18254    IO-APIC-edge  ide1
NMI:          0
LOC:   66439861
ERR:         45
MIS:          0