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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,561

Re: Coredumps on most applications

Compare with ucode initrd and without

If they differ you'll know that the update took place, if not your initrd is not working as you may think it does. Since I'm at home now I checked it with my machine.

Not a good check, since there may not be an update available if you have a recent firmware/BIOS.

fabertawe

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From: Lloegr

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 279

Re: Coredumps on most applications

Compare with ucode initrd and without

If they differ you'll know that the update took place, if not your initrd is not working as you may think it does. Since I'm at home now I checked it with my machine.

I should have been more specific in my previous reply - it's the same with and without. But....

You can check it yourself: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mi … ode_update

Thanks, I did try that earlier but it failed to build but it's working now. It looks like the update's not getting applied...

$ bsdtar -Oxf /boot/intel-ucode.img | iucode_tool -tb -lS - 
iucode_tool: system has processor(s) with signature 0x000306c3
selected microcodes:
001: sig 0x000306c3, pf mask 0x32, 2014-07-03, rev 0x001c, size 21504

I'll try a different bootloader when I get a chance.

Last edited by fabertawe (2015-04-24 15:59:04)

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MK13

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-04-12

Posts: 80

Re: Coredumps on most applications

Not a good check, since there may not be an update available if you have a recent firmware/BIOS.

That's true, but in this case it would have worked nonetheless. If he would have a recent firmware wouldn't that include the TSX fix as well?

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,561

Re: Coredumps on most applications

Not a good check, since there may not be an update available if you have a recent firmware/BIOS.

That's true, but in this case it would have worked nonetheless. If he would have a recent firmware wouldn't that include the TSX fix as well?

It should, assuming it's the same problem, assuming the firmware applied the update correctly, assuming the cpu is being identified correctly, assuming...

That's a lot of assumptions.

fabertawe

Member

From: Lloegr

Registered: 2009-11-24

Posts: 279

Re: Coredumps on most applications

Installing the microcode fixed my problems.

You should mark this thread as solved now

I got the microcode working by installing Grub. It seems Burg couldn't handle a double initrd entry. I actually tried going with an EFI bootloader first but spent far, far too long getting nowhere! I really couldn't get my head around it in the end, despite installing refind and following everything to a tee.

A big thankyou to everyone for helping out.

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