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[–] greaterthanstupid@dmv.social 111 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You must sacrifice a live Penguin by smashing a window with an apple.

that makes perfectly sense... thanks.

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 94 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I still remember when I tried to run a binary on a different architecture and got the message: "Bad elf magic"

[–] Nintendo@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

well what else would you expect it to say when you never practice your elf magic?

[–] JWBananas@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago

Reticulating splines

[–] mrgreyeyes@feddit.nl 21 points 2 years ago

Goth Tinkerbell with her chemical powders.

[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I was there 3000 years ago

[–] silvercove@lemdro.id 82 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

Hahaha good one. I'll look it up in the ancient penguin libraries.

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 52 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First you need to put on your robe and wizard hat.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years ago

That's for when the world is in danger. This isn't a serious enough issue for that.

[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

More context please: What happened? What were you doing? What does you setup look like?

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's an acer laptop i5 GeForce mx 130, basically I updated the linux firmware and put it on suspend but nvidia GPU did it's thing and it didn't wake up from sleep. So I has to power it off directly and it booted up to this.

[–] andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

From the looks of it, grub is grumpy. Do you get this after choosing a boot option? If so, can you try choosing recovery vs regular boot? If not, you may need to get a live USB plugged in and reinstall grub.

Edit: on further searching, this might be a zfs error. Are you using openzfs?

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thanks it's fixed, i booted into an old kernel.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

If you're using ZFS, make sure you're using an LTS kernel.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago
[–] herrvogel@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

Oh look, another old laptop with Nvidia Optimus having trouble with suspension.

[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Judging from that code, it's clearly a Hex.

[–] TunaCowboy@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] Aetherians@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please contact your local witch.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

~ # which witch

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

I don't know, dereference it and find out.

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago

You needed to roll a 13, but you rolled an 8, that's why your spell failed, should work next turn.

[–] snugglebutt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 years ago

Allocation is a perfectly valid school of magic

[–] yum13241@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago

Jokes aside, you either installed for the wrong architecture, or you're fucked hard.

[–] technologicalcaveman@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Consult the ancient tome of the Arch Wiki

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] technologicalcaveman@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Primarily, but lower magicians can likey find some wisdom there as well.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's actually a distro called Sourcemage with commands like cast/dispel/summon and packages stored in grimoires. I ran it for awhile on my servers. The command structure is quite fun.

[–] technologicalcaveman@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So, I have been doing a system with my pc where I have a case full of different nvme ssds with different OSes on them. I might have to do that on one of them.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Have you thought about just running KVM on a machine and building out virtual images there? Then you don't have to swap hardware and you can reach them from your desktop through VNC.

[–] technologicalcaveman@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sure, but I prefer running bare metal also I then can move it around between various computers. Each one is used a regular system, just different purposes. So, running in a virtual machine doesn't make much sense for me. I'll use nothing but openbsd for a week, then I'll swap over to arch to play some games, then I go into gentoo or something else for whatever other task I'm feeling.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Gotcha! No worries, I just thought I'd mention it since some people don't seem to even know that's an option.

[–] technologicalcaveman@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's all good it's definitely a good option, I've done it before. I also just get a level of amusement out of swapping sticks out. Gives me the same feeling as swapping out floppies for different software.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago

Oh someone who remembers floppies... Yeah those were the days, things were a lot easier back then.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Okay guys it's fixed! I had to reboot into an older kernel, that did it. I was kinda panicking, cuz i have to use it for work.

[–] BlueKittyMeow@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

You and that kernel were both panicking!

[–] ledtasso@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

This is really odd, I hit this same issue recently. Booting into an old kernel also fixed it for me. What distro are you using? I'm on Ubuntu.

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Maybe it replaces the kernel during reboot. But since i powered it off directly, the magic disappeared.

[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I got "invalid magic number" when trying to set up grub

[–] orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] frippa@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

IDK but it was my fault, I was a noob and was trying to run Ubuntu server from live usb with one (1) month of Linux experience, at least I experimented Idk, that's the point I guess.

[–] orizuru@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

at least I experimented Idk, that’s the point I guess.

That's absolutely the point.

I've done most of my learning after messing up my system (or at least learnt the lessons that stuck the most).

[–] downpunxx@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

roll for 00110010 00110000

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Checkmate warlocks

[–] radioactiveradio@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Update: for anyone who's having the nvidia suspend issue and finds this post. Apparently turning off OS prober in the grub config fixes that. Good day, and keep practicing the magic!

[–] linuxgator@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't it obvious? Press the key labeled 'Any'