• phx@lemmy.ca
    6·
    10 months ago
    • 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

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      10 months ago

      While it was funny, it probably is for the best. Especially if a kid uses the system it might legitimately scare the shit out of them lol

      I wouldn’t be surprised if a kid thought the police was gonna break in now

  • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    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

    • fishsayhelo@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      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

  • Hubi@feddit.de
    1·
    10 months ago

    The third one is new to me. “Congratulations” - that’s fucking hilarious.

  • MJBrune@beehaw.orgEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    I love Linux but this is a huge pain point for me with Linux. Just tell me actual errors like a professional OS would.