Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 22:23:51 -0500 From: Michael Urban <murban@tznet.com> To: John <papalia@udel.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd (to me) error Message-ID: <20001017222351.A975@tznet.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001017224042.00ad54a0@mail.udel.edu>; from papalia@udel.edu on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 10:48:36PM -0400 References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001017224042.00ad54a0@mail.udel.edu>
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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
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