After getting a disk usage warning, I noticed my syslog
and kern.log
were multiple GBs in size (20GB each). I then used this askubuntu post to clear the log files but today I find that they have again grown to around 2GB in size. This is a normal computer which is shutdown at the end of the day so these files have literally grown that much in a day or two. The last 10,000 lines of both log files can be downloaded; syslog and kern.log. I then examined the contents of my log files and noticed a repeating message
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119288] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: can't find device of ID0038
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119290] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0038
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119297] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=0038(Receiver ID)
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119298] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: device [8086:340e] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119299] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: [ 0] Receiver Error (First)
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119303] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0038
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119307] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: can't find device of ID0038
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119313] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0038
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119322] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=0038(Receiver ID)
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119324] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: device [8086:340e] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119329] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: [ 0] Receiver Error (First)
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119333] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0038
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119348] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Physical Layer, id=0038(Receiver ID)
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119349] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: device [8086:340e] error status/mask=00000001/00002000
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119350] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: [ 0] Receiver Error (First)
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119356] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: AER: Corrected error received: id=0038
Aug 20 10:47:41 macallan3 kernel: [ 382.119360] pcieport 0000:00:07.0: can't find device of ID0038
The complete output of lspci
is also available; lspci. PCI ID 0000:00:07.0: corresponds to
00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5520/5500/X58 I/O Hub PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev 13)
Now any ideas what's going on? Is my PCIe port failing? Or what's connected to the PCIe express port failing? I should note I think my Nvidia card is connected to that PCIe port.
Thanks for reading.