Dept of Utterly Useless Error Messages

[Les Mikesell]

Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 23:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> When I run xpdf I get the message
>> "Warning: Attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab".
>>
>> Developers who introduce warning messages like this
>> should be sentenced to read the complete works of Kim Jong Il. 
> 
> Hmm, I've seen ones that say "an error has occured, because an error has
> occurred."  I think that was on a Mac.
> 
> Somewhere I have a screen grab of a useless pop-up error message on
> Linux.  There's a box with an alert icon and an okay button.  But
> there's no clue as to what program generated the error, nor what the
> error is.  The only text it has is the okay button.

My favorite came from an old AT&T SysVr3 box.  It was:
"Error: should not happen".

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