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On 18 Oct 2001 23:12:56 -0600, Craig Kelley <i...@inconnu.isu.edu> wrote: My fave "error" message is from win2k. A service hadn't started at boot "The service is not running because no attempts have been made to start Remember, this error was *caused* by an attempt to start the service! --
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| [snip about invincible Redhat installation]
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|> It's still standing !!!
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| Funny you should bring it up; just today I was talking with a buddy of
| mine and she told me the story of her box that is running Slackware 2.
| It began life in '96 with a 1.2.13 kernel, and it runs a 2.4.x kernel
| now complete with glibc 2.2 and everything in between. She killed the
| box once doing an upgrade of libc (and ever since, she's kept every
| version of libc inbetween -- its probably the only Linux box in the
| world capable of running *any* Linux binary dynamically linked).
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| No packages, no Xconfigurator, nada. Amazing.
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|> Ok, so it's moved from one disk to another then back, but it's still the
|> same installation of RH.
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|:) Yep, she did that too. Her system has >100gb of storage now, but
| its running on an older K6 (lost her posh machine in the dot-bomb).
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|> 'The configuration information of the performance library
|> "D:\WINNT\System32\w3ctrs.dll" for the "W3SVC" service does not match the
|> trusted performance library information stored in the registry. The
|> functions in this library will not be treated as trusted.'
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| I can add another hundred, or so, like-wise error "messages" to that
| one. My favorite is a WINS error we got and the error message in the
| event viewer went like this (I kid you not):
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| "WINS encountered an error. The error is in the data."
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| Nice.
and I was investigating why. I attempted to start the service manually.
The error that this generated was something like:
it". (paraphrased, from memory, as I am not near the box in question)
Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol
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