# mcelog error

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**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [December 21, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mcelog-error/21911 "2011-12-21T22:26:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mcelog-error/21911/1 "2011-12-21T22:26:02Z")

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I am getting a hourly cron job log report from mcelog. The error is  
Unknown Intel CPU type family 6 model 2c. Is there any way I can  
correct this log?

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**Post date:** [December 27, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mcelog-error/21911/2 "2011-12-27T18:43:20Z")

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**Post date:** [April 1, 2013, 11:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mcelog-error/21911/3 "2013-04-01T23:18:42Z")

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Is there a CPU set in your /etc/mcelog/mcelog.conf file?  
(Usually it is blank)

mcelog --help will show a list of valid CPUs that it recognizes but default.  
You can also use  
#\> mcelog --cpu xeon5500  
which isn’t your exact CPU, but probably close enough until a patch or upgrade is released.