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| Newer page: | version 14 | Last edited on Monday, March 8, 2004 9:59:30 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 12 | Last edited on Wednesday, February 11, 2004 1:50:35 pm | by AnonymousCoward | Revert |
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!! Keyboard not found. Hit F1 to continue
Many [BIOS]es will report this error if a keyboard is not found at boot time.
-!! lp1
on fire
+!! lp
on fire
-The Linux lp# driver says this when your printer signals an error, but doesn't signal which error. Usually this means the printer is offline.
+The Linux lp# driver says this when your printer signals an error, but doesn't signal which error. Usually this means the printer is offline. (This message was copied from much earlier line printer daemons from unixes of old.)
__Update:__ [Kernel] 2.4.20 contains the following change from 2.4.19:
diff -urN linux-2.4.19/drivers/usb/printer.c
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A Microsoft Windows error message as reported by comp.risks 21.37
!! You don't exist. Go away.
-This message appears for certain unix programs when an entry can't be found for you in /etc/passwd. This might be because you've not logged in via login(1) (this can happen if /etc/inittab specifies a program that doesn't log you in, instead of getty(8)) or if your machine can't retrieve the data from the network (if you are using [NIS] or [LDAP] or some other network user administration system).
+This message appears for certain unix programs when an entry can't be found for you in /etc/passwd (or these days, via [PAM])
. This might be because you've not logged in via login(1) (this can happen if /etc/inittab specifies a program that doesn't log you in, instead of getty(8)) or if your machine can't retrieve the data from the network (if you are using [NIS] or [LDAP] or some other network user administration system).
!! Curse on you, wizard, before you recurse on me.
bibtex(1) style files use an undocumented language called [BST] (or that's the file extenstion, which is the closest it has to a name). In this language recusion is prohibited, and this is the message you get if you try it.
+
+!! I refuse to debug myself!
+
+If you tell gdb to try to attach to its own process. (It can't run it and breakpoint it and the same time).
!! sudo(1)
If the 'insults' flag is set in /etc/sudoers, sudo will return one of the following errors when an invalid password is entered:
