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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! >
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            \    ^__^
              \  (xx)\_________
                 (__)\         )\/\
                  U   ||-----w |
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Out of memory: Kill process 15745 (postgres) score 10 or sacrifice child
    • themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      8 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.

    • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      1·
      8 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.

  • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml
    2·
    8 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

  • orsetto@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    8 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

  • croobat@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

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

  • OmnislashIsACloudApp@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 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

  • cley_faye@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

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

  • gentooer@programming.dev
    0·
    8 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.

    • JATth@lemmy.world
      0·
      8 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]