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nvm a restart fixed it this happend due to accidentally holding down the down arrow for about 40 minutes. anyone know what on earth is happening here?

also how does one stop the rapid mitosis of fedora's in grub, they keep multiplying

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[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 68 points 7 months ago (4 children)

How does one accidently holds down the down arrow for 40 minutes?

[–] doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 66 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)
[–] RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Til we have a sillicon valley sub

Edit: nvm that's reddit

[–] DosDude@retrolemmy.com 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not sure. But he does have a down arrow imprint on his forehead.

[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 22 points 7 months ago

aang aint got shit on me

[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 5 points 7 months ago

I once crashed gdm by accidentally leaving some object on top of my keyboard which depressed some keys for hours.

[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

doing the dishes and browing lemmy

[–] Naminreb@kbin.social 44 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You’ve reached the end of Linux.

[–] pbjamm 7 points 7 months ago

Linux Kill Screen

[–] Strit@lemmy.linuxuserspace.show 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can you replicate it? If you can, you can create a bug report. If not, it's probably a one-time thing where the stars alligned and the conditions where just right for it to happen.

[–] Molten_Moron@lemmings.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] LolaCat@lemmy.ca 29 points 7 months ago

Did you replace your BIOS with Minecraft’s texture files? Classic mistake, I’ve done it a dozen times! /s

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@lemmy.one 14 points 7 months ago

This is GRUB’s final warning before you dig too deep in the OS list. Never hold ⬇️ for more than 45 minutes. If you do, make sure you have punch tape with a bootloader available or you'll have to manually enter machine code instructions to get your computer back up.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

rapid mitosis

As in you are seeing multiple boot entries? It's likely one entry per kernel version that you have installed. It doesn't happen often these days any more, but in some situations it's handy to be able to revert to a previous kernel if for example third party modules break.

[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

its per fedora version for some reason, and i dont think that such a fallback would even work since fedora removes the previous kernel core and most other garbadge from what ive seen

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I don't know about Fedora, but Debian keeps at least the previous version. However, that's about it. There remain only 4 (2 normal + 2 recovery) GRUB entries and the additional ones vanish automatically during the uninstallation procedure.

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[–] muhyb@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 2 points 7 months ago

Prolly hardware tho

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago

Check your video card

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 5 points 7 months ago

Never forgive. Never forget.

[–] TDCN@feddit.dk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I had an old laptop do this some years ago and it was because the graphics card was broken. I had dual graphic card and found a way to disable the broken one in bios (dedicated one, could continue on intel graphics) but the computer was too old to reliably use much longer and it died even more a few months later.

[–] WILSOOON@programming.dev 1 points 7 months ago

This one isstill perfectly fine, just has the brain damage of an nvida card