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"Write Failed: Success" is my new favorite error message.
by pgroves 10y ago
"Write Failed: Success" is my new favorite error message.
- MattGrommes 10y agoI had one of those once so I winced when I saw it. I was printing 'Error: ' with the message that came back from the server and in one case saw 'Error: Success'.
- bschwindHN 10y agoIn a similar vein, applications that output in red when everything is running fine cause a lot of wincing.
- dman 10y agoIn jepsen that might actually be an apt message - https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen https://github.com/aphyr/jepsen :)
- brynedwards 10y agoReminded me of the Interface Hall of Shame[1], which, now that I think about it, might be evidence against his claim that software is getting worse... [1] http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/stupid.htm http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/stupid.htm
- simmons 10y agoI see similar messages fairly often. I believe "Success" is what you get when you use strerror() to translate an errno of 0 (success) on a Linux/UNIX machine with English localization. So this contradictory message is what happens when the programmer uses an errno-printing function (perror() or something custom) to indicate an error that wasn't actually due to a failure that sets errno.
- pc2g4d 10y agoI'm pretty sure that was his SSH connection dying after he killed the remote server. But yeah, it's hilariously/depressingly contradictory. Worse than useless, since you don't know if something went right, or something went wrong, or both, or neither!
- d2p 10y agoYeah, could've been something like that. It doesn't normally do that it was just a one-off, so I figured it was just something weird up (like maybe I'd already told it to reboot and it didn't seem to work, so I sent it again but it was just starting).
- stan_rogers 10y agoYou have to go a long, long way to beat "Keyboard not found. Press F1 to continue."
- dbcurtis 10y agoERROR IN OR NEAR CARD 1, COLUMN 1. 0C7 ABEND. ABORT. CORE DUMP FOLLOWS: ...