Worst Exception!!

[Patrick Fox]

That was my choice too, Out of Memory. GDI throws this a lot and it's misleading. People with 8 gigs of ram scratch their heads wondering where it went wrong. GDI uses limited pools of memory for its stuff, and when it runs out it doesn't tell you which of these pools was exhausted. Even worse it usually lacks GDI resources to throw up a message box telling you it ran into a problem. I've dealt with this a lot in the past week.

[patbob]

C#'s missing DLL exception is my absolute favorite worst. Not the exception itself, but because Microsoft put all these convenient fields in for identifying which DLL was missing, and then didn't bother to actually fill any of them in. [edit] Not worst, but rather my all time favorite, was the insufficient memory error message from the IBM (3090?) we had at school. It included the 800 phone number of the sales team so you could contact them to buy more memory. Of course, configuring the VM to have more RAM was the cheap answer :)

We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

[waarnink]

Who is General Failure? And why is he reading drive A?

[patbob]

YvesDaoust wrote:

This one gives me nightmares because so far I have been unable to troubleshoot it. The application refuses to start, that's it. No clue on what DLL was missing/of invalid type or whatsoever

Check into sxstrace. It generates a log of all side-by-side library loads, reporting what library versions were checked and which were loaded (or not found). Totally useless for C# though, but useful for native code.

We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.

[gggustafson]

I would like to submit the following from [^]:

   Three things are certain:
   Death, taxes, and lost data.
   Guess which has occurred.

   Everything is gone;
   Your life's work has been destroyed.
   Squeeze trigger (yes/no)?

   I'm sorry, there's -- um --
   insufficient -- what's-it-called?
   The term eludes me ...

   Windows NT crashed.
   I am the Blue Screen of Death.
   No one hears your screams.

   Seeing my great fault
   Through darkening blue windows
   I begin again

   The code was willing,
   It considered your request,
   But the chips were weak.

   Printer not ready.
   Could be a fatal error.
   Have a pen handy?

   A file that big?
   It might be very useful.
   But now it is gone.

   Errors have occurred.
   We won't tell you where or why.
   Lazy programmers.

   Server's poor response
   Not quick enough for browser.
   Timed out, plum blossom.

   Chaos reigns within.
   Reflect, repent, and reboot.
   Order shall return.

   Login incorrect.
   Only perfect spellers may
   enter this system.

   This site has been moved.
   We'd tell you where, but then we'd
   have to delete you.

   wind catches lily
   scatt'ring petals to the wind:
   segmentation fault

   ABORTED effort:
   Close all that you have.
   You ask way too much.

   First snow, then silence.
   This thousand dollar screen dies
   so beautifully.

   With searching comes loss
   and the presence of absence:
   "My Novel" not found.

   The Tao that is seen
   Is not the true Tao, until
   You bring fresh toner.

   The Web site you seek
   cannot be located but
   endless others exist

   Stay the patient course
   Of little worth is your ire
   The network is down

And many others.

Gus Gustafson

[Reelix]

Uncaught Error - 'undefined' The error message that gets thrown when an HTML5 WebSocket crashes due to an unknown cause...

-= Reelix =-

[Member 4608898]

1. Something went wrong but I'm not telling you what 2) Illegal/invalid value but I'm not going to tell you what the illegal/invalid value is.

[Eric_M]

AppHangB...does anyone have any idea where that comes from or what causes it.

[RafagaX]

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

In an applet, pure bliss to solve... :rolleyes:

CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...

[Alan Balkany]

You beat me to it!

[KP Lee]

Both of those exceptions explain what you did and that it is your (the developer's) fault that it happened. If both of them said "You are an effing idiot!", the statement would be true, but not at all helpful about what went wrong. I've worked in languages where you'd never get the first error because there is no such thing as an object and over-indexing an array isn't an error. I've had scheduled programs that blew up because it had an illegal divide by zero error or illegal instruction. Couldn't for the life of me find out what was wrong with my code. Turned out it was scheduled to run when another code was also running that overindexed its array and rewrote my code's machine language in memory and so my code went crazy. The operator happened to notice other people's code were blowing up whenever this same program ran.

Jacquers wrote:

index is outside the bounds of the array

Is a life-saver. Or at least a time-saver because my time isn't wasted when someone else is the idiot. As it is, too many times, that's my role. (IE Idiot programmer.)

[KP Lee]

English is my first language and I didn't get it. That or my memory had a stack-overflow problem so I forgot what you meant. I think my memory is on RAM that doesn't get refreshed too often, I forget what I'm

[AlphaDeltaTheta]

All C compilers are probably like that... even MINGW and MSVC does this till today... By far, only tcc gives good compile time errors!!

[AlphaDeltaTheta]

Hoa! :omg: Well I never programmed any of OS/* or COBOL... But this one looks insane

[AlphaDeltaTheta]

This happened quite often to me, once I had written a file finder program. During tests, once I tried to search a really huge directory tree and boom! Stack Overflow. And that is still in my code -- Known Issues - "WONTFIX" - Craches with huge file trees!

[AlphaDeltaTheta]

Not only .NET. It also happens with native exe's. Mostly if there is an error in the application manifest. (Not the .NET assembly manifest, the one embedded in the exe)

[AlphaDeltaTheta]

My keyboard (PS/2) was plugged in already... what else shall I do?? That time my head grows hot and ":mad: Mr COMPUTER, HOW MANY DAMN KEYBOARDS DO YOU WANT??"

[AlphaDeltaTheta]

patbob wrote:

Check into sxstrace. It generates a log of all side-by-side library loads, reporting what library versions were checked and which were loaded (or not found). Totally useless for C# though, but useful for native code.

Hey, It will be very helpful to me if you please instruct me how to use that tool ??

[AlphaDeltaTheta]

How in the world I'll press F1 after keyboard error??

[AlphaDeltaTheta]

KLSmith wrote:

The service failed to start. Reason: The service finished successfully.

This is a good one... Also in my event log!