I participated in a recent survey. The question was:
What's the Worse Error Message You've Ever Seen?
This was my contribution, which received thousands of up-votes:
A graduate student brought me an error message that said:
THIS IS AN IMPOSSIBLE ERROR. THIS ERROR CANNOT OCCUR.
IF THIS ERROR OCCURS, SEE YOUR IBM REPRESENTATIVE.
I told the student I wasn’t the right person to see, but he should see his IBM representative.
He said, “But I’m my IBM representative.”
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I'd like to collect some of these lousy error messages for my book, ERRORS.
If you've got a good (i.e. bad) one, please share it with us in a comment to this post.
Thanks for contributing.
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"One item could not be deleted because it was missing."
Apple Mac System 7 error message
The worst error message I've ever seen is oddly common to many systems: no message at all.
I think it counts, as I certainly "saw" everything it presented, and every time I understood everything it was telling me (though not what I needed to know.)
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