Dangerous fortune - panic can't find /
Ok - so you'll all get a good laugh out of this...
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panic can't find / Just a warning to anyone who comes across this. O.K. I think it's funny now but I didn't at the time.... |
Don't panic :)
Are you sure about the control character, though ? This message come from the line #10131 in /usr/share/games/fortunes/fortunes (I don't see any weird char) |
You're not the only one bgeddy. That one scared the shit out of me too first time I saw it. :)
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fortune -m panic* edit: Just booted up the VM again and now fortune -m panic* doesn't cause the strange behavior - just my luck - perhaps some unfortunate coincidence ? Suffice to say this added to the "entertainment" value !! |
I had never seen this line, but have seen the next one in the list:
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panic: kernel trap (ignored) |
I might disable the fortunes - I mean what's next maybe
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rm -rf / |
It gave me a moments pause when I first saw it, but then I asked the question:
"What the hell did you boot from then?" and suddenly woke up to the joke. |
Yeah - I thought that but the wierd > > > prompts gave me a double scare !
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lol, I love these kind of fortune jokes :D It's even funnier because it tends to happen more often to people new to Linux, and then they ask on here. It has happened on several occasions, just search for it.
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They can be quite spooky at times. I had an Arthur C. Clarke quote pop up one morning, and when I fired up my web browser to look at the days News, I found an article saying he'd died!
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I didn't think the fortune writers had this kind of sense of humor - evil b******ds! I know you can enable offensive fortunes - just curious what this is classed as? Seriously though I can see the funny side - just glad I was alone when I had my "little surprise". The language was quite choice.. Quote:
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One that still spooks me occasionally is "segmentation fault - core dumped"
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That's it - just ignore all messages .... Code:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: |
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Well I never was spooked by fortune. BTW, I don't get it: Normally you see fortunes only after you login into console manually. How can you be spooked by it? It's quite clear that it's not kernel output or something.
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