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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Monday, October 27, 2003 2:11:13 pm | by StuartYeates | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Thursday, November 7, 2002 2:29:35 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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!Messages reported by applications and OperatingSystems
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.
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- Keyboard error
. Hit F1 to continue
-many computers display
this message
if a keyboard is not found at boot time.
+ Keyboard not found
. Hit F1 to continue
+Many [BIOS]es will report
this error
if a keyboard is not found at boot time.
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lp1 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.
+
+Update - kernel version 2.4.20 contains the following change from 2.4.19:
+ diff -urN linux-2.4.19/drivers/usb/printer.c
+ linux-2.4.20/drivers/usb/printer.c
+ --- linux-2.4.19/drivers/usb/printer.c Fri Aug 2 17:39:45 2002
+ +++ linux-2.4.20/drivers/usb/printer.c Thu Nov 28 15:53:14 2002
+ @@ -257,7 +257,7 @@
+ * Get and print printer errors.
+ */
+
+ -static char *usblp_messages[] = { "ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "on fire" };
+ +static char *usblp_messages[] = { "ok", "out of paper", "off-line", "unknown error" };
+
+
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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
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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(1
)) or if your machine can't retrieve the data from the network (if you are using NIS 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. 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).
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If the 'insults' flag is set in /etc/sudoers, sudo 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.
@@ -66,6 +80,15 @@
I think ... err ... I think ... I think I'll go home
(Taken from ins_*.h in the source for sudo 1.6.6)
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+If you go to a shell and type 'make love' it says something along the lines of 'make love: target not defined'.
+
+Also, if you type 'man woman' in a shell, it says 'error: no dictionary entry for woman'.
+Wipe that last one if it is sexist.
+----
+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, but if you try it, you get ''Curse on you, wizard, before you recurse on me.''
+
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+See also ApplicationErrorMessages, CommonErrors and ErrorMessages (for [POSIX]/libc error codes).
-See also ApplicationErrorMessages and CommonErrors (for [POSIX]/libc error codes).
+Part of CategoryFunny
