Today I tried to boot my computer like any other day and was surprised to see a Christmas boot screen come up.
Problems occurred. Time was set to something like jan something 2002 and disk errors reported and the dayum thing went into repair file system mode. I was able to boot into a non standard kernel but only as root. Then rebooted and again was greeted by the Christmas theme but this time was able to boot as user with a default kernel.
WTF? Did I actually have a disk issue or was this something related to this “Easter Egg Like” theme? I never intentionally installed it and am a little disconcerted from the experience.
The errors are not related to the Christmas theme. Something else must have gone wrong.
The penguins are already in there, they’re programmed to appear around Christmas, with a little search, you will find posts on how to turn them off, on, be there all year.
Knurpht thanks for the quick reply as expected nothing of use in the logs seems to have been prior to logging. After I finish what I have to do here I’ll try rebooting again. Just hate to take the risk just now. I know my HD is high on age/hours but I’d rather not replace it until some bad blocks show up.
Ken I think you got it right. The cmos clock was back to 01 2002 set that to current date time and no more troubles so far. I replaced the battery last winter but I must have got a old one. No doubt there must have been a power outage last night while I was sleeping and that triggered the time mismatch which triggered a disk check and the christmas theme showing.