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misleading error messages


From: Mike Scheutzow
Subject: misleading error messages
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2022 13:19:56 -0400
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Hello Thomas,

Thank you for creating such a high-quality app.

I want to share a recent experience where the error message misdirected me for about 30 minutes. I use the command line. I wanted to backup several file trees to a blank blu-ray disk, but I didn't realize the file size exceeded the capacity of the blu-ray disk. The error messages output by xorriso didn't guide me in the right direction:

> xorriso : SORRY : Missing on disk and in ISO: disk_path '/d2/android-studio'
> Not ok. Comparison or update failed due to error. (runtime 0.0 s)
> xorriso : WARNING : No session MD5 is recorded with the loaded session
> MD5 MISMATCH WITH DATA OF LOADED SESSION !
> xorriso : FAILURE : Event triggered by MD5 comparison mismatch
> xorriso : NOTE : Tolerated problem event of severity 'FAILURE'
> xorriso : FAILURE : -eject: Image changes pending. -commit or -rollback first

At the very end, it did print the following (but I didn't notice it until after much debugging effort):

> xorriso : FAILURE : Image size 13004673s exceeds free space on media 12219392s

My suggestion is that if a disk does not have sufficient free space, it'd be much clearer if the app aborted immediately with that final FAILURE message, and avoided showing all the intermediate "fake" failures. Linux users have been trained to debug using the first few errors, not the 8th one.

thanks again for an excellent app,
Mike Scheutzow




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