I installed the stable update today with the pamac GUI als I always do, but unfortunately it resulted in a major error: on the reboot my laptop got stuck on an error message stating:
[ 0.245300] mce: [Hardware Error]: CPU 0: Machine Check: 0 Bank 5: ae00000000
40110a
[ 0.245300] mce: [Hardware Error]: TSC 0 ADDR fef873c0 MISC 78a0000086
[ 0.245300] mce: [Hardware Error]: PROCESSOR 0:40651 TIME 1680276004 SOCKET 0
APIC 0 micronode 26
[ 0.438308] Initramfs unpacking failed: invalid magic at start of compressed
archive
[ 0.679173] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
[ 1.125084] CPU: 2PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.4.238-1-MANJARO '#1
[ 1.127377] Hardware name: LENOVO 20354/Lancer 5A5, BIOS 9BCN25WW 04/10/2014
[ 1.129729] Call Trace:
[ 1.130559] dump_stack+0x64/0x7c
[ 1.131671] panic+0x11a/0x30d
[ 1.132698] mount_block_root+0x2e2/0x306
[ 1.134044] prepare_namespace+0x136/0x16c
[ 1.135418] ? rest_init+0xbf/0xbf
[ 1.136556] kernel_init+0xa/0x101
[ 1.137696] ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
[ 1.138939] Kernel Offset: 0x29e00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
[ 1.142537] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0( ]---
(this is NOT an exact copy of the error output, since I was not able to do anything while that happened. I typed it manually with my hands in here from a photo that I took of the error output - also I am typing this now from a live-usb and have a wrong keyboard setting, so it was a pain in the ass to type it haha and since i could not type a # without getting automatic fill ins, I put the ā before it. that was not there in the original message. also the amount of spaces might not always be correct, I just tried to make it optically look as much like the original as possible):
Before that update everything worked fine, I had no issues at all.
I am not really fit with IT but I was using Manjaro for the past 4 years without ever having to deal with serious trouble like this (minor problems i could always solve with help of the forum or friends). I read some threads in the manjaro forum about Kernel panic issues but the explanations were too complicated for me to execute. I asked a friend to help me out and he tried to apply a tip from a thread from ne_vanrijn from June 2021 who seemed to have the same issue with almost the same error message but we could not make it work/solve the problem this wayā¦
Does anybody have a solution/idea, that I could try (fairly easy, understandable step-by-step without requiring deeper skills or insights) or do I have to set up my system completely new and wipe everything?
The problem is actually this: mce (Machine Check Exceptions) detected an error on one of your RAM modules, which was not able to be corrected. Commonly it always tries to correct it, but on non-ecc RAM it is not easy. These errors can come and go, and are a result of old-aged RAM modules. It is not easily to determine for example which RAM module is affected.
In this message it says just, that on CPU 0 (or Core 0) happens that on Bank 5 (one of the ram module) an uncorrectable error happens when allocating ae0000000040110a.
In any way, it could be the RAM module or the CPU, but commonly it is a defective RAM.
Thank you so much for your reply! So you think that the kernel panic issue was caused by the RAM error? Or are there actually two different problems? And is there an explaination why this happened only after the latest update? Up until the update, everything seemed to work fineā¦
Allright, do you know where I can get info in how to do this? Iāve never ejected a RAM beforeā¦and currently I can not enter my system since it doesnāt Bootā¦so i would have to do this from a livestick (my friend gave me one with Endeavor OS on it, because that is what he is using)
And would it help to wipe the system and install manjaro fresh again? Or would manjaro always get stuck in this RAM error, even if it is a fresh install?
This is a physical hardware process, getting āin to your systemā will mean opening the case;.
There are 2 types of ram modules, laptop and full size, both are easy to put in and out (laptop example: 13-inch MacBook Late 2008 Memory Installation Video - YouTube), getting to some laptop ram modules, however, can be tricky. Tell us the model of your PC and we can give you more info.
MCE errors can be resulting from BIOS/software interactions so first and easiest step would probably be to update BIOS before making hardware changes like ejecting and cleaning RAM. The RAM error might very well be phantom. I had similar issue when i bough the very latest ryzen2 on the new x58 motherboard, but a BIOS update fixed it.
Ah yes, that seems to be a similar Problemā¦maybe i can find someone to help me try thisā¦i had so little issues for the past years with manjaro that i am just really a bit overwhelmed by this complicated problemā¦but really appreciate the help of all of you!!!
(And yes, i made a mess of my postā¦should have read the part with the formatting and tried to get the inxi output while i was on the livestickā¦will try to do better next time! Guess i was just so stessed and freaked out that my mind just didnāt work properly )
I have among other things a gigabyte brix - same error message
it comes because of an error in the bios - the device has no mce controller at all
And the āerrorā had no consequences since 2017.
This was it! Now my laptop boots normally again. And I also saw that there was already an Update for the mkinitpcio package now that probably would have solved it as wellā¦ Thank you all, this was really helpful! You are doing an amazing job with Manjaro
Just as an additional info: i was using kernel 5.4 and didnāt realise that i obviously had not updated it in a whileā¦did update to 6.1 now. That might have solved the problem as well without manipulating the mkinitpcio packageā¦
Anyway, now i learned some things and i am happy that i can fully enjoy my manjaro again
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Thank you all, this was really helpful! You are doing an amazing job with Manjaro