2008-02-04

thedarkages: (Default)
2008-02-04 03:48 pm

Error Messages

LibraryThing has the second unniest error message I've seen:

Error: Rampaging elephant error. Hide the peanuts and try again later.

Tim Spalding explained:

It happens when the same request happens twice in a row.The second one gets the message if the first doesn't finish fast enough.


Still taking the cake for the funniest error message I've ever seen is the following, observed on a Red Hat 5.2 system in 1998:

Kernel panic (254) - Something is very wrong. You should not be seeing this message.