Existential errors

Some error messages in IT would make even the most morose French existentialist philosophers fall just a little deeper into despair.  Just this morning, I was working with Kevin Varley, one of InfoWorld's developers, on a problem with one of our development systems (a Solaris machine).  A filesystem wouldn't mount and we were puzzling over what was wrong with it.  When we tried to mount the filesystem, we got this message:

mount: the state of /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s4 is not okay

Well, yeah.  Kevin and I already knew the filesystem was "not ok"!  After some fiddling, we realized that we had a simple permissions issue and we corrected it quickly.  In the end, though, the system did not step in to reassure us that the filesystem was now "ok."  We just knew that it was not "not okay" anymore and moved on.