People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux's fault, and that the OS doesn't work.
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They need to noobify that prompt further, something like "Yes, break my system!". Even Linus wouldn't fall for that (I hope)!
*They will claim it was Linus fault
Which one?
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Message two can also be caused by packages (or rather, package creators) with delusions of grandeur that only think that the system will stop working without them, so they rig things to threaten to uninstall the system.
Or else someone has created too heavy a dependency on something that ought to be removable, but isn't thanks to malice or incompetence (or both).
We still mock Microsoft for putting too heavy a dependency (or at least removal FUD) on whatever web browser they bundle with their OSes (first IE, now Edge), and here we might have a package creator trying the same damn thing.
Honestly I once did this to my desktop environment because I saw a huge list of packages and ignored it because I thought they were packages that could be upgraded, not that it was going to uninstall my fucking desktop lol
- Login as a user.
- Delete the user while still logged in
- Run command
You should get a message "you don't exist, go away"
Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with "deluser $USER" and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that
My local deluser checks if the user has any active process. I tried deleting all of the data by hand, but the process is still assigned to a user name and id.
I'm not sure if this one can error still can be replicated.
Well you could manually edit /etc/password and shadow I suppose
I think I'll just take your word for it.
Easy to try in a virtual machine with snapshot. Or use a filesystem snapshot
How could you not include the classic printer lp0 on fire!
I actually got that one around 2010 on Ubuntu. The printer wasn't actually on fire. If I recall it was caused by the network attached printer losing connection during a job
That was a fun read, thank you.
Good chance that could be fire
There's also the naughty programmer getting spanked by EFL
EFL is an absolute crime against programmer-kind, even if the errors are, admittedly, hilarious. can assert that they are not so funny when you find them deeeeep in some god-forsaken legacy codebase that's seen more null *s than git commits lol
The third one is new to me. "Congratulations" - that's fucking hilarious.
I got so hung up on the misspelling of "separate" that I didn't even see the "Congratulations" on first read-through. Which says more about me than about the error message, alas. 😅
Reminds me of the Chocolatey Uninstall script warning
What the heck tho, how could a simple script destroy a whole machine?
When a software package installer isn't designed to be reversible
I recall a bunch of antiviruses being similarly difficult to completely wipe
It isn't as hard apparently. The script follows the manual way, just delete the folder it's in. What is a problem seems to be changing the path - extracting, changing and reapplying the path variable seems to need 90 lines of Powershell alone. That's just crazy. I'm also wondering how other programs write themselves into path without needing warnings and backups of the path for the user to restore.
It doesn't say that.
If you setup your system with Chocolatey (is a package manager for Windows), removing Chocolatey will break your setup (removing all installed packages).
Seriously, this script may destroy your machine and require a rebuild. It may have varied results on different machines in the same environment. Think twice before running this.
I don't think "machine" is defined as "installed packages". And reading the code of the script, the breaking part is the whole script, as 90 lines are literally just for the purpose of getting, changing and reapplying the path variable. It (or rather the system and user one) are also backed up to C:\PATH_backups_ChocolateyUninstall.txt.
So it's still a wonder for me how removing something from path, or adding for that matter, is so complicated. Linux just has /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin for custom scripts/programs globally, and .local/bin for user specific executables. If you really want custom paths for your special application then add a script in /etc/profile.d/. No need to permanently change a global variable that could easily break your system at any time.
TL;DR Windows is dumb for having global PATH variables without a way to expand them modularly, which would be much safer.
score 10 or sacrifice child is actually just a MtG card, how did that get in there
I can't imagine Linux users and mtg players being mutually exclusive lol
We're not
Gah and I spent all that money on a garage foundation.
yeah, quote a problematic video. surprised that he deleted everything, when is says it will break his system!
Top one has to be my favorite. I've gotten it once. I did manage to get it to boot and fixed it but at the time I was just like: "oh....well shit"
do you remember what causes it? and what was the fix?
When a (typical) Linux system boots up, it first goes through an "early boot" environment that just has some basic drivers and things. The entire purpose of this environment is to find where your actual root file system is (which could theoretically be on something quite complicated, like RAID or a network file system), mount that, and then transition to the "real" system.
That error appears when something goes wrong with mounting the real file system.
I had this happen to me recently too, with an EndeavourOS live USB. In my case, it turned out to be due to a faulty flash, reflashing with Rufus fixed it.
BEST os ever, proof is right here.
That's some bare metal system breakage I can get behind
What was that? I couldn't hear you over my triggered anxiety.
Be back later, gonna go generate more recovery media.
Where lp0 on fire?
I've been messing around with Linux VMs and have gotten kernel panic a lot lately. Always gives me a chuckle
lp0: on fire
linux susadmin can't even find the print screen button smdh head /s
You don’t see most of these errors in situations where screenshots are possible
php has a log message about killing children, i think i saw once
The first one sent shivers fown my spine.
Second one just reminded me of Linus' challenge.
The third one gave me quite a laugh.
I let out a chuckle on the last one
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the famous "This incident will be reported" error was briefly removed last year before being replaced with a less ominous version.