- 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
the famous “This incident will be reported” error was briefly removed last year before being replaced with a less ominous version.
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
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
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
score 10 or sacrifice childis actually just a MtG card, how did that get in thereThe third one is new to me. “Congratulations” - that’s fucking hilarious.
I love Linux but this is a huge pain point for me with Linux. Just tell me actual errors like a professional OS would.
Just tell me actual errors like a professional OS would.
Professional OS:
