Re: Dept of Utterly Useless Error Messages

["David G. Miller" <dave davenjudy org>]

Timothy Murphy <tim 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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