Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] virerror: Make error reporting prettier

On Mon, 2019-04-01 at 10:10 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote: > So far, if something goes wrong we print an error message, e.g. > like this: > > virsh # start fedora > error: Failed to start domain fedora > error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: 2019-04-01T08:08:49.753850Z qemu-system-x86_64: -object memory-backend-memfd,id=ram-node0,hugetlb=yes,hugetlbsize=0,size=8589934592,host-nodes=0,policy=bind: Property 'memory-backend-memfd.hugetlbsize' doesn't take value '0' > > This is very boring and usually too low level for users to know > what is going on or how to fix the problem. Let's reimplement our > error reporting then. After this patch the previous error turns > into (my favourite): > > virsh # start fedora > error: Failed to start domain fedora > error: operation failed: the printer thinks its a router. *it's There are at least two more occurrences of the same mistake in http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/excuses Based on that, I have to assume the list has not been properly vetted and might contain several other spelling/grammar issues. NACK until the list of excuses has been proven to only contain grammatically valid and correctly spelled English sentences.