Dept of Utterly Useless Error Messages
David G. Miller
dave at davenjudy.org
Mon Apr 30 01:50:46 UTC 2007
Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> When I run xpdf I get the message "Warning: Attempt to remove
> nonexistent passive grab". The program seems to run in spite of this.
> I googled for the message, with a number of hits, but none had any
> suggestion of a solution, or a cause. Developers who introduce warning
> messages like this should be sentenced to read the complete works of
> Kim Jong Il.
Oh, come on. I remember a fellow getting the message "Error in source
deck." from a programming class way back when (?? ALGOL on in an IBM
System/370 ??).
Now that's a utterly useless error message.
Cheers,
Dave
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