Off topic : funiest OneWorld error messages ever

[jim_smith]

Hi guys,

I recently came across the following error message in the log files on an application server at one of my clients. I thought that maybe we could have a little fun here and get some more people to post some of the funiest error messages they've ever seen. Here it goes:

1764/1660 Tue Jan 25 15:49:12 2005 WRKROUTE.C217
We might have a big problem, kernel job (pid 0) has not been started.

1764/1660 Tue Jan 25 15:49:23 2005 WRKROUTE.C217
We might have a big problem, kernel job (pid 0) has not been started.

1764/1660 Tue Jan 25 15:50:43 2005 WRKROUTE.C217
We might have a big problem, kernel job (pid 0) has not been started.

 

[Nicat]

Hi JIm,
ACI is a strange place. You will be more surprised...

 

[Nicat]

Hi Jim, again,
Can you please have a look at my posting about doing custom Table IO on server....
Thanks

 

[altquark]

Back in B714 days we came across a pretty humorous error.

Back then, the oneworld explorer was designed for NT 3.51 GUI - but it didn't mind if you installed the client on Windows 95.

However, when you tried to create a shortcut icon by right-clicking in oneworld explorer - it would provide the error "critical error - don't tell harry"

we never did figure out who harry was but I guess someone did tell him in the end....

 

[AllisonD]

Back in my Digital PDP-11 RMS days we had a program error that usually reared it's ugly head in development and I quote;

"Program Lost, Sorry" No line number or program statement reference. But at least Olson was sorry.

 

[jolly]

Re: RE: Off topic : funiest OneWorld error messages ever

On old Unixes it used to be fun coming up with commands that have humorous results, Most of these don't work any more unfortunately.

Examples:
% make babies
Don't know how to make babies

% ar god
God does not exist

and so on....

 

[wadie]

I always find this one funny to see:

2972/3388 Thu Jan 27 07:42:35 2005 jdeksec.c2242
Decryption failed. Don't know why!!

 

[shearerj]

Not quite an error message...

The kernel has crashed, people hear "the Colonel has crashed" and start asking if the Colonel was hurt.

Killing the orphans of a JDE crash (i.e. JDE crashes on a Windows platform leaving threads running that can only be cleaned up by killing them in task manager or rebooting.)

 

[Boris G]

Back in the old AS/400 and Synon days: If you got an error message and pressed F1, you get more detail on what it is. If you press F1 again on the help screen, you got the message:

'You are beyond help' - there's some dry British humor for you

 

[Ray Justus]

Abort, Retry, Ignore?



Redo from beginning?

 

[DSauve]

Any old VMS users out there? If so, this one's been around for a LONG time:

$ make :== $sys$system:teco32_tv make (on our Alpha system it's teco32_tv)
$ make love

responds with
Not war?
*

 

[AllisonD]

Hi Don,

Didn't know Teco made it off the VAX and onto the Alpha. Should have died on VAX.... I left the VAX VMS world 10 years ago because of company direction changes. Fortunately, VMS was a good training ground for OS400. Ten years ago a Vax box running VMS was very bullet proof and I find that AS/400, iSeries, i5 running OS400 just as bulletproof. Some things I liked more on VMS and for other things I like OS400 better. Net Net it's been a draw in my book but given Digitals fate, I'm glad I transitioned over to IBM.