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Share Your Stories of Accidents and Annoyances.. (self.linux)

submitted 1 month ago by stembolts to c/[email protected]

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So I was thinking of silly things I've done that pseudo-broke my system, or made me think I had a broken system. Like the time I put the cmd :

exit

in my ~/.bash_aliases file and I had to open a text editor to fix it because that broke all the terminals on my machine.

I'm curious what other silly things users have done to confuse themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A few years back, I was installing Arch on an external hard disk. I was basically done, so I powered off the system, but I forgot to unmount the hard disk.

Then I tried to boot to the OS on my computer, which was also Arch, and it got stuck at the BIOS splash screen. No luck rebooting.

I remember panicking (because that was my only machine) and asking my computer teacher what to do and he also had no idea.

I ended up manually unplugging and replugging the hard disk inside the case and it worked. To this day I still don't know what went wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seem just an error. Computer shouldn't have a problem with not unmount HDD. It should just not detect the HDD

Sorry if my english is wrong

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's right. It should not have the problem. That's why this is confusing.