From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 17 20:54:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from diarmadhi.mushhaven.net (diarmadhi.mushhaven.net [63.75.111.197]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3158137B65E for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:54:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mistwolf@localhost) by diarmadhi.mushhaven.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA66708; Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:56:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mistwolf) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 20:56:32 -0700 From: Jamie Norwood To: Michael Urban Cc: John , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Odd (to me) error Message-ID: <20001017205632.A66642@mushhaven.net> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001017224042.00ad54a0@mail.udel.edu> <20001017222351.A975@tznet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <20001017222351.A975@tznet.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The screen message you got is because the port compiles to use the Nethack-style error messages. It can be configured not to if you look through the config files. Jamie On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:23:51PM -0500, Michael Urban wrote: > Well, as for the first part, I am going to take an educated guess that it > means either you ran out of swap space, or the pager was trying to get > something out of swap that it thought should be there, and couldn't get it > for some reason. > > As far the "Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die..." message... Well, > That is one I have to say I have never seen before. But UNIX has sort of a > tradition of humourous error messages. Ones I have seen include "lp on fire" > when a printer is returning an error code that UNIX thinks is invalid, and > "You don't exist. Go away!" when certain things attempt to happen as a UID > that does not really exist. > > On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:48:36PM -0400, John wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I did something apparently extremely silly and got a really odd error message. > > > > Scenario: > > - Running in screen > > - SU'd to root > > - issued: `egrep "irpd" /' > > > > Results: > > I got BOATLOADS of the error message: > > merlin /kernel: swap_pager_getswapspace: failed > > It repeats... oh... 10k times + until the REALLY odd message shows up: > > > > 'Suddenly the Dungeon collapses!! - You die...' > > > > Um... what does that mean, other than the fact that all my processes died > > and dumped me out of screen? Is that a screen error? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > John > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message