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-!!! Messages reported by applications and [
OperatingSystem]
s
+!!! Messages reported by applications and OperatingSystem~
s
These are some of the funny, sarcastic, or just plain stupid error messages that you might see. If you are looking for "proper" error messages from applications, and how to resolve them, look at ApplicationErrorMessages.
!! Keyboard not found. Hit F1 to continue
+
Many [BIOS]es will report this error if a keyboard is not found at boot time.
!! 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. (This message was copied from much earlier line printer daemons from unixes
of old.)
+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:
<verbatim>
diff -urN linux-2.4.19/drivers/usb/printer.c
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</verbatim>
!! Q276304 - Error Message: Your Password Must Be at Least 18770 Characters and Cannot Repeat Any of Your Previous 30689 Passwords
-A Microsoft Windows error message as reported by comp.risks
21.37
+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 (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)), 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) or if you've made a mistake editing /etc/passwd (or friends).
+This message appears for certain unix programs when an entry can't be found for you in <tt>
/etc/passwd</tt>
(or these days, via [PAM]). This might be because you've not logged in via login(1) (this can happen if <tt>
/etc/inittab</tt>
specifies a program that doesn't log you in, instead of getty(8)), 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) or if you've made a mistake editing <tt>
/etc/passwd</tt>
(or friends).
!! 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 recursion 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).
+If you tell [GDB]
to try to attach to its own process. (It can't run it and breakpoint it and the same time.
)
+
+!! The devil is in the details: zero number of heads or sectors
+
+Seen from the mdir(1) command.
+
+!! MicrosoftWindows MSI Installer
+
+ Software Installation encountered an unexpected error while reading from the MSI file \\mlc1\deploy\~FireFox-1..1-enUS.msi
.
-!!
The devil is in
the details: zero number of heads or sectors
-seen from the mdir(1) command
.
+
The error was not serious enough to justify halting
the operation
.
-!! Windows MSI Installer:
-"Software Installation encountered an unexpected error while
-reading from the MSI file \\mlc1\deploy\~FireFox-1..1-enUS.msi. The
-error was not serious enough to justify halting the operation.
The
-
-"
+
The following error was encountered: The operation completed successfully.
!! 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:
+If the <tt>
insults</tt>
flag is set in <tt>
/etc/sudoers</tt>
, sudo(1)
will return one of the following errors when an invalid password is entered:
* Just what do you think you're doing Dave?
* It can only be attributed to human error.
* That's something I cannot allow to happen.
