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| Newer page: | version 12 | Last edited on Thursday, November 7, 2002 5:43:06 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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!Messages reported by applications and OperatingSystems
- Keyboard error. Hit F1
to continue
- -- many computers display this message
if a keyboard is not found at boot time.
-
- lp1 on fire
- -- old versions of the line printer daemon (lpd) used to say this under certain circumstances when the printer couldn't be contacted.
-
- Q276304 - Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
- -- as reported by comp.risks 21
.37
+This page tells you how
to resolve problems in some applications
if you receive strange/weird error messages or conditions
.
+You might also be interested in the FunnyApplicationErrorMessages wiki page.
+See also CommonErrors and ErrorMessages (for [POSIX]/libc error conditions).
+----
+!Sawfish/Sawfish-gnome
+* If you do not get a drop-down menu when you click on a window's menu button, can't change the number of workspaces, and/or gnome-control-center says "the applet encountered an error" when you try to configure sawfish, it means that you have versions of sawfish and rep (and/or rep-gtk[[-gnome]?) that don't like each other. For example, you have sawfish from debian woody (stable) but a rep from debian testing or unstable, even though these packages don't have an official conflict. Other symptoms include lines like "No such file or directory, sawfish/client" from the command line or in your .xsession-errors file.
+----
+!SSH/OpenSSH/scp(1) etc
+* If you get an error "no matching comp found: client zlib server none" then what this means is that you tried to use compression but the ssh server refused. This might be because you had the "-C" option on the command line, or you have "Compression" in your ~/.ssh_options file. This might mean that there are different versions of ssh installed on the two machines, or different versions of libssl. Not trying to use compression will work around this.
+* "bad packet length <lots of digits>" means there was a protocol error, normally due to conflicting versions of ssh on the two machines.
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