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0x80070020 0x80070020: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process
Windows · layer 6, Platform & cloud
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Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory
A file or directory the program tried to open doesn’t exist at that path.
sqlite3.OperationalError: unable to open database file
SQLite couldn’t open or create the database file — wrong path or missing/unwritable directory.
Windows Error 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED): Access is denied
Windows refused an operation because the account or process lacks permission — seen in Windows Update, installers, Task Scheduler…
java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException: /path
The OS denied a file operation to the Java process.
System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'x' is denied
The process’s identity can’t read/write that file or folder — IIS app pool identity, container user, read-only attribute, or a di…
npm ERR! code EROFS — EROFS: read-only file system
npm tried to write to a read-only location (read-only container filesystem, mounted volume, or system path).
The User Profile Service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded.
Windows can’t load your profile — the profile registry entry or NTUSER.DAT is corrupt, or the Default profile is damaged.
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'data.csv'
Python couldn’t find the file at that path — usually because relative paths resolve from the working directory, not the script.
UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 10: invalid start byte
Python read bytes that aren’t valid in the encoding it assumed (usually UTF-8).
Error 0x80070570: The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable
Windows can’t read a file because the disk, USB stick or installation media has corrupted data or bad sectors.
WslRegisterDistribution failed with error: 0x80370102 (virtual machine could not be started)
WSL 2 can’t start its VM because hardware virtualization or the Virtual Machine Platform feature isn’t enabled.
java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /path/file
An NIO Files operation targeted a path that doesn’t exist.
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Error: Cannot find module 'x' (MODULE_NOT_FOUND)
Node can’t resolve the module path — the package isn’t installed, or a relative path/extension is wrong.
bash: command not found
The shell can’t find an executable with that name in any directory on your PATH.
Windows Error 0x80070002: The system cannot find the file specified
A file or registry entry Windows expected is missing — common in Windows Update, backups and app installs.
sqlite3.OperationalError: database is locked (SQLITE_BUSY)
Another connection holds a write lock on the SQLite file, and this one gave up waiting.
sqlite3.OperationalError: no such column: x
SQLite can’t find the column — missing migration, typo, or a string written in double quotes.
sqlite3.IntegrityError: FOREIGN KEY constraint failed
An insert/update/delete violated a foreign key in SQLite (with PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON).
Linux: Permission denied
Your user (or the service user) lacks read/write/execute permission on a file, directory or one of its parents.
HTTP 403 Forbidden
The server understood the request but refuses to authorize it — you (or the server process) are not allowed to access this resour…
Windows Error 0x80004005 (E_FAIL): Unspecified error
A generic failure code — the operation failed for a reason the component didn’t report precisely. Context decides the fix.
npm ERR! code EACCES — permission denied
npm can’t write to a directory — usually global installs into a root-owned folder.
Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
The docker CLI can’t talk to the Docker engine — it isn’t running, or your user can’t access the socket.
OAuth 2.0 Error: invalid_scope / insufficient_scope
The requested scope is unknown or not allowed for this client — or the token lacks the scope the API endpoint requires.
user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
Your account isn’t allowed to use sudo.
WordPress: Sorry, you are not allowed to access this page.
Your user role lacks the capability for that admin screen — or the database table prefix / user capabilities are out of sync afte…
java.io.FileNotFoundException: config.properties (No such file or directory)
Java couldn’t open the file — wrong path relative to the working directory, missing file, or a classpath resource read as a file.
Docker: Bind for 0.0.0.0:80 failed: port is already allocated
Another container or host process already publishes that host port.
Kubernetes: CrashLoopBackOff
The container starts, crashes (or exits), and Kubernetes keeps restarting it with increasing back-off delays.
Conflict. The container name "/x" is already in use by container …
A container (running or stopped) already has that name; Docker won’t create a second one with the same name.
Windows error 0x8007000D (The data is invalid)
Windows read update, installer or setup data that is corrupted or incomplete.
The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed
The computer’s machine account password no longer matches Active Directory, so domain logins fail.
Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC — Log file: C:\Windows\System32\Logfiles\Srt\SrtTrail.txt
Windows failed to boot repeatedly and Startup Repair couldn’t fix it; SrtTrail.txt records the root cause it found.
Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read
A file API (readFile, writeFile, createReadStream) was given a directory path.
Error: ENOTDIR: not a directory
A path treats a file as if it were a directory (e.g. file.txt/child).
Warning: include(x.php): Failed to open stream: No such file or directory
PHP couldn’t open a file for include/require/fopen — wrong path, missing file, or no permission.
URIError: URI malformed
decodeURIComponent/decodeURI received an invalid percent-encoded sequence.
ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0x00
Text contained bytes invalid in UTF-8 — often a NUL byte (0x00) or Latin-1/Windows-1252 data.
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/path'
The OS refused the file operation — no permission, a directory passed to open(), or (on Windows) the file is open elsewhere.
Blue Screen: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (Stop code 0x0000001A)
Windows detected a severe memory-management error — commonly faulty RAM, unstable memory settings or a bad driver.
Error: EEXIST: file already exists, mkdir
Node tried to create a file/directory/symlink that already exists.
npm ERR! code ENOTEMPTY — ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty, rename
npm couldn’t rename a folder in node_modules because it wasn’t empty — usually a corrupted or concurrently modified node_modules.
Docker Desktop: WSL 2 installation is incomplete / WSL update required
Docker Desktop on Windows needs WSL 2 and its Linux kernel; they’re missing, outdated or disabled.
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
You ran systemctl inside an environment without systemd as PID 1 — a Docker container or older WSL.
Android Emulator: The emulator process for AVD x has terminated / was killed (hypervisor not available)
The Android Emulator crashed or couldn’t start — usually missing hardware acceleration, low disk/RAM, or GPU driver problems.
error: unable to create file x: Filename too long (Windows)
Windows’ 260-character path limit blocked Git from creating a file.
No space left on device, but df shows free space (inodes exhausted)
The filesystem has run out of inodes — the slots for files — even though there are gigabytes free, usually because of millions of…
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
A glob like * expanded to more file names than the kernel allows in one command (ARG_MAX), so the command never ran.
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