Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

> Yesterday, the 'parted' tool was giving me a totally cryptic error message.
> 
> $ apt-get source parted
> $ cd parted-2.2
> $ grep -rn "error message here" .
> 
> -r makes search recursive, -n makes grep output line numbers next to the 
> filenames. Then I opened a text editor on the file and line number that grep 
> mentioned, and tried to figure out the code :)

Isn't trying to figure out why an arbitrary piece of code doesn't work 
formally equivilent to the Halting Problem? (With non-termination simply 
being the most basic kind of program bug...)

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