Penguin
Diff: FunnyApplicationErrorMessages
EditPageHistoryDiffInfoLikePages

Differences between version 18 and predecessor to the previous major change of FunnyApplicationErrorMessages.

Other diffs: Previous Revision, Previous Author, or view the Annotated Edit History

Newer page: version 18 Last edited on Friday, April 1, 2005 10:26:55 am by JohnMcPherson Revert
Older page: version 17 Last edited on Friday, March 4, 2005 6:19:38 pm by JohnMcPherson Revert
@@ -32,20 +32,23 @@
 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). 
  
 !! 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. 
+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). 
  
-!! Windows MSI Installer  
-Software Installation encountered an unexpected error while 
+!! The devil is in the details: zero number of heads or sectors  
+seen from the mdir(1) command.  
+  
+ !! Windows MSI Installer:  
+" Software Installation encountered an unexpected error while 
 reading from the MSI file \\mlc1\deploy\~FireFox-1.0.1-enUS.msi. The 
 error was not serious enough to justify halting the operation. The 
 following error was encountered: The operation completed 
-successfully. 
+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: