- Login as a user.
- Delete the user while still logged in
- Run command
You should get a message “you don’t exist, go away”
Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with “deluser $USER” and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that
I think I’ll just take your word for it.
Easy to try in a virtual machine with snapshot. Or use a filesystem snapshot
the famous “This incident will be reported” error was briefly removed last year before being replaced with a less ominous version.
While it was funny, it probably is for the best. Especially if a kid uses the system it might legitimately scare the shit out of them lol
I wouldn’t be surprised if a kid thought the police was gonna break in now
I noticed this, got so sad. It was one of the funniest ones for me. First time I got it I kinda laughed.
IMHO, that doesn’t sound any less ominous
At least it answers the question whom it will be reported to. In all likelihood the administrator is me anyway, at least on my personal devices. People won’t worry anymore that it will be reported to the police or, heaven forbid, to Santa Claus.
How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!
I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn’t actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job
That was a fun read, thank you.
I love that the Wikipedia article has a section on Printer flammability :D
Good chance that could be fire
There’s also the naughty programmer getting spanked by EFL
EFL is an absolute crime against programmer-kind, even if the errors are, admittedly, hilarious. can assert that they are not so funny when you find them deeeeep in some god-forsaken legacy codebase that’s seen more
null *s than git commits lol
The third one is new to me. “Congratulations” - that’s fucking hilarious.
I got so hung up on the misspelling of “separate” that I didn’t even see the “Congratulations” on first read-through. Which says more about me than about the error message, alas. 😅
Top one has to be my favorite. I’ve gotten it once. I did manage to get it to boot and fixed it but at the time I was just like: “oh…well shit”
do you remember what causes it? and what was the fix?
When a (typical) Linux system boots up, it first goes through an “early boot” environment that just has some basic drivers and things. The entire purpose of this environment is to find where your actual root file system is (which could theoretically be on something quite complicated, like RAID or a network file system), mount that, and then transition to the “real” system.
That error appears when something goes wrong with mounting the real file system.
BEST os ever, proof is right here.
Where lp0 on fire?
That’s some bare metal system breakage I can get behind
LI
The first one sent shivers fown my spine.
Second one just reminded me of Linus’ challenge.
The third one gave me quite a laugh.
I let out a chuckle on the last one