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Some UNIXen had distinctly ... odd ... error messages in the old days. Including kernels dmr had nothing to do with. One day in 1996 I was in the NOC of a cert
by cstross 15y ago
Some UNIXen had distinctly ... odd ... error messages in the old days. Including kernels dmr had nothing to do with.
One day in 1996 I was in the NOC of a certain ISP in London when I noticed folks crowding around a terminal. I shambled over to see what had gotten their attention. This ISP ran a lot of NetBSD boxes (for security reasons). Lo and behold, there was a strange message on the console:
Alien abduction overflow: core dumped.
(I never did learn just what triggered that one, but I heard it made it back to the kernel developers by way of a bug report.)
- 1amzave 15y agoOf course there's always the classic "lp0 on fire!", but I think most people know about that one. Also, I've noticed that when GNU screen crashes, it prints "Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die..." (though I think that may be dependent on nethack-mode). I've yet to decide whether I think that makes the crash more or less infuriating.