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Linux error starter pack (lemm.ee)
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Linux Error Messages That Go Hard Starter Pack

ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device.
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
   sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) sysv-rc (due to sysvinit) util-linux
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 198 to remove and 3 not upgraded
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
 ?] 

(12/19) upgrading linux-raspberrypi
WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted.
         You probably just broke your system. Congratulations.
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait...

[   0.895799] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
on unknown block(0,0)

  _______________________________
< Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! >
  ------------------------------
            \    ^__^
              \  (xx)\_________
                 (__)\         )\/\
                  U   ||-----w |
                      ||      ||

Out of memory: Kill process 15745 (postgres) score 10 or sacrifice child

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[-] HeyLow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 171 points 3 months ago

Can't forget about "This incident will be reported."

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 69 points 3 months ago

Fun fact! It gets reported to /var/spool/mail/root ! If your mail spooler is properly configured (and your SMTP relay is also configured to send mail addressed to root to an actual user account) then you will get these alerts by email.

[-] sag@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

It got removed right?

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 21 points 3 months ago

As SU type mail, you can read what meesages got sent to root@machinename

[-] sag@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Oh ok

[-] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 3 months ago

I first got that on a Mac in my school and actually got scared it was going to tell the IT desk. It didn't.

[-] orsetto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 137 points 3 months ago

I'd like to add this one:

Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 3.
Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

I get this one like once a week and it always makes me laugh. One day I'll investigate

[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 50 points 3 months ago

I mean reason 31 could be anything. CPU 3 could be feeling a little tired, be pranking you, or just not be the brightest of the CPUs.

[-] finkrat@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Poor Tux, it's a rough life

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

BIOS/UEFI likely tried to fuck up the CPU, or hardware fault. NMI => Non Maskable Interrupt.

[-] OmnislashIsACloudApp@lemmy.world 102 points 3 months ago

I love some of the dangerous upgrade commands too, my favorite:

hdparm --fwdownload-mode7 firmwarefile.bin --yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --please-destroy-my-drive /dev/sdb

[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 59 points 3 months ago

Legend has it that in the dark ages, when DEC (Digital Equipment Corp) licensed ARM from Acorn for their StrongARM processors, they took Arm's testing toolkit and ran it to find issues with their processor.

Now, ARM was a tiny division and only had developed their tools for strictly internal usage. It was never supposed to go to some huge and professional enterprise like DEC.

So when the DEC engineering team ran the tester, It shouted a SHIFTER FUCKED error right at them lmfao

[-] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 39 points 3 months ago

Can you insert Lp0 on fire as well ? :) https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/7306628

lp0 on fire (aka Printer on Fire) is a semi-obsolete error message still generated on some Unix/Linux operating systems in response to certain types of printer errors. lp0 is the Unix device handle for the first line printer, but the error can be displayed for any printer attached to a Unix/Linux system.

[-] DoomBot5@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

Sacrificing children is pretty common in Linux

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 33 points 3 months ago

Is there a version of this with some pixels in it?

[-] ysjet@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Possibly, but I'll just transcribe it here for screenreaders and people who can't see through the pixelation:

Linux Error Messages That Go Hard Starter Pack

ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device.
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.

WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
   sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) sysv-rc (due to sysvinit) util-linux
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 198 to remove and 3 not upgraded
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
 ?] 

(12/19) upgrading linux-raspberrypi
WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted.
         You probably just broke your system. Congratulations.
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait...

[   0.895799] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs 
on unknown block(0,0)

  _______________________________
< Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! >
  ------------------------------
            \    ^__^
              \  (xx)\_________
                 (__)\         )\/\
                  U   ||-----w |
                      ||      ||

Out of memory: Kill process 15745 (postgres) score 10 or sacrifice child
[-] Cannonhead2@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Good human

[-] sag@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks added to the post

[-] TooLazyDidntName@lemmy.world 32 points 3 months ago

What goes hard about the kernel panic one?

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 9 points 3 months ago

u cant make popcorn without some kernels panicking

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Add sudo insults for good measure.

[-] gentooer@programming.dev 27 points 3 months ago

I remember not compiling the root filesystem in the kernel on my first Gentoo install, and being surprised it couldn't mount root at boot.

[-] JATtho@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The first kernel I built was not entirely happy with the .config I had made for it. Only thing it could do was BEEP-ing in panic for any key presses. [insert noot noot meme]

[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

And yet all of them indicates the actual cause of error. It's nice to have a bit of fun sometimes.

[-] BitingChaos@lemmy.world 21 points 3 months ago

cowsay should be at the end of every script you run.

[-] XEAL@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Argh not the VFS kernel panic!

[-] Napain@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

i have seen many of these memes, is there a website or something where all these are collected ?

[-] brian@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Try removing essential packages from your system or unmounting /boot

[-] croobat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

On the second one if someone typed just "y" I would print "Please read the damn warning".

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 3 months ago

I like the errors that strongly signal that the system was not produced by a corporation. They'd never get through coffee review where I work

[-] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 months ago

[insert the perfect meme to put here that has a baby and a fire here future self please]

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