CentOS - May 2007 - Installed CentOS 5 today, question about an error I'm getting

So I did a fresh install today. Decided to go ahead and upgrade.
Everything seems okay save for three problems.

#1 - I get a message during boot saying that an Intel microcode update
didn't work. Something about not being able to find /proc/microcode.

#2 - I can't use the Firefox extension HTML Parser. Anyone use this.

#3 - Off and on GDM crashes and I get dropped into a prompt.

Any ideas?

Preston

Preston Crawford wrote:
> 
> So I did a fresh install today. Decided to go ahead and upgrade.
> Everything seems okay save for three problems.
> 
> #1 - I get a message during boot saying that an Intel microcode update
> didn't work. Something about not being able to find /proc/microcode.

What's your CPU? If it's not Intel, it's probably irrelevant.

If it is Intel IA32, you might be missing something.... I don't know 
what microcode updates there are, bit I figure if it works it works.

> 
> #2 - I can't use the Firefox extension HTML Parser. Anyone use this.
> 
> #3 - Off and on GDM crashes and I get dropped into a prompt.
> 
> Any ideas?
Logs?



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Preston Crawford wrote:
> 
> So I did a fresh install today. Decided to go ahead and upgrade.
> Everything seems okay save for three problems.
> 
> #1 - I get a message during boot saying that an Intel microcode update
> didn't work. Something about not being able to find /proc/microcode.
> 
> #2 - I can't use the Firefox extension HTML Parser. Anyone use this.
> 
> #3 - Off and on GDM crashes and I get dropped into a prompt.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Preston

Are you using CentOS 5.0 x86 or x86_64?

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2007 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: [CentOS] Installed CentOS 5 today, question about an
error I'm getting
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>


On 5/1/07, John Summerfield <debian at herakles.homelinux.org>
wrote:
> Preston Crawford wrote:
> >
> > So I did a fresh install today. Decided to go ahead and upgrade.
> > Everything seems okay save for three problems.
> >
> > #1 - I get a message during boot saying that an Intel microcode update
> > didn't work. Something about not being able to find
/proc/microcode.
>
> What's your CPU? If it's not Intel, it's probably irrelevant.
I'm having this same error, using the Xen kernel on a Sony VAIO desktop.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 0
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1500MHz

The error is coming from /etc/rc.d/init.d/microcode_ctl but you can
reproduce it by running "/sbin/modprobe microcode" from the shell.