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Linux Error Messages That Go Hard Starter Pack
ERROR: Failed to mount the real root device.
Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck.
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
sysvinit initscripts (due to sysvinit) sysv-rc (due to sysvinit) util-linux
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 198 to remove and 3 not upgraded
You are about to do something potentially harmful.
To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!'
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(12/19) upgrading linux-raspberrypi
WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted.
You probably just broke your system. Congratulations.
>>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait...
[ 0.895799] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
on unknown block(0,0)
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< Your System ate a SPARC! Gah! >
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Out of memory: Kill process 15745 (postgres) score 10 or sacrifice child
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Can’t forget about “This incident will be reported.”
Fun fact! It gets reported to /var/spool/mail/root ! If your mail spooler is properly configured (and your SMTP relay is also configured to send mail addressed to root to an actual user account) then you will get these alerts by email.
On the second one if someone typed just “y” I would print “Please read the damn warning”.
I’d like to add this one:
Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 31 on CPU 3. Dazed and confused, but trying to continueI get this one like once a week and it always makes me laugh. One day I’ll investigate
I love some of the dangerous upgrade commands too, my favorite:
hdparm --fwdownload-mode7 firmwarefile.bin –yes-i-know-what-i-am-doing --please-destroy-my-drive /dev/sdb
