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diff --git a/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1911188 b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1911188 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b0176b7e --- /dev/null +++ b/results/scraper/launchpad-without-comments/1911188 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +qemu-system-x86_64 prints obscure error message and exits when encountering an empty argument + +QEMU emulator version 4.2.1 (qemu-4.2.1-1.fc32) on Fedora 32. + +When writing a script to start qemu automatically, I ran into a very confusing error message due to a bug in my script and had trouble understanding it. I isolated the problem to the following: + +$ qemu-system-x86_64 "" +qemu-system-x86_64: Initialization of device ide-hd failed: Device needs media, but drive is empty + +As you can see, running qemu with an empty argument prints a seemingly random and unrelated error message about an ide-hd device, and the program immediately exits with code 1. This happens when an empty argument appears anywhere in the arguments list, always causing the program to immediately die with this error. + +This is a simply baffling message to be encountering when the problem is really an empty argument. + +Expected behaviour: Either flatly ignore the empty argument, or at most trigger a warning (eg, "warning: saw empty argument"). It should not at all prevent the program from running. \ No newline at end of file |