non-sensical error messages ftw!

[Flibster]

Aaaah....I love error messages.

Had one on Linux once. Printer on Fire!

Errrrrm...

We've got some great error messages in our software - many of them will never been seen. Including a Homer "D'OH!" and a Homer "Arrgghh Boogeyman!"

But the Guru Meditation is possibly my favourite error message EVER!

Simon/~Flibster

[Mark]

Originally Posted by Flibster

We've got some great error messages in our software - many of them will never been seen. Including a Homer "D'OH!" and a Homer "Arrgghh Boogeyman!"

You say that until it happens. There was a somewhat insulting/swearing message that got into our software, and that was never supposed to be seen.

Until a customer saw it.

Someone's head rolled that day - not mine I should add.

[Daz]

Originally Posted by Flibster

Had one on Linux once. Printer on Fire!

There's a few geeky things like that in some of the kernel source:

printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: BUG... transmitter died. Kicking it.\n",...)
linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/acenic.c

printk("VFS: Busy inodes after unmount. "
"Self-destruct in 5 seconds. Have a nice day...\n");
linux-2.3.99-pre8/fs/super.c

printk("autofs: Out of inode numbers -- what the heck did you do??\n");
linux-2.0.38/fs/autofs/root.c

printk("you lose buddy boy...\n");
linux-2.6.6/arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c

panic("%s called. This Does Not Happen (TM).", __FUNCTION__);
linux-2.6.6/arch/mips/mm-64/tlb-dbg-r4k.c

<3 fortune.

[Burble]

I got a bollocking a couple of years back for some of the error messages I put into a perl script. Mind you, if someone was stupid enough to get the script to error in that way then they deserved to be called a knob

[Daz]

I'm messing about with some Ruby scripts at the moment. Might put some abuse in them for kicks

[Mark]

More...

panic("Damn it Jim! I'm a doctor, not a programmer! "
"Oh, wait a sec, I am a programmer. "
"And, who's Jim?!?!\n"
"Arrgghh! We've done it again!\n");
linux-2.6.6/drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c

/* panic?? These should never occur in our application. */
linux-2.6.6/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aiclib.c

panic("do_trap: can't hit this");
linux-2.6.6/arch/i386/mm/extable.c

printk(KERN_ERR "happy meal: Transceiver and a coke please.");
linux-2.6.6/drivers/net/sunhme.c

/* When we have more time, we can teach the penguin to say
* "By your command" or "Activating turbo boost, Michael".
*/
linux-2.2.16/arch/sparc/prom/sun4prom.c

[Daz]

Excellent

[Belmit]

I'm currently working on getting all the students on the internet in halls, and one of them brought in a laptop with IE7 on it. I got a prompt telling me that a website was not on my trusted sites and did I want to abort browsing to it. At that point, I didn't care but just wanted to stop the prompt appearing so I added it to the trusted sites.

When I browse to the site now I get a prompt saying 'You're trying to access a page on one of your trusted sites. Continue?'.

Gah!

[Treefrog]

Originally Posted by Garp

Running winamp by any chance?

Aha! I saw that in the Cap'n's link and thought it might be the answer. But yes

[Treefrog]

Originally Posted by kaiowas

So it's true. Somewhere under all the piles of superfluous crap, windows is actually based on the mighty AmigaOS

Naah - it would be three times as efficient and half as buggy if it was