stymied

When the tests were run on a system you don't have access to, that can mean the difference between being stymied and successful debugging.

The guy who wrote the book on Unix and Internet security, stymied by lack of a decent client.

Hyman Rickover was a power-grabbing, egocentric fool who stymied miniaturization and development of alternatives that didn't enhance his influence.

He made headlines all over the pacific northwest because he totally stymied the medical examiner with the cause of his death.

Of course this also runs the risk of being (understandably) stymied by Microsoft marketing FUD.

But there were one or two that I encountered that stymied me, and might've killed my momentum.

I actually got stymied on Lyx with some of its insistence on specific structures for documents and fighting those.

Look at how the resistance in Iraq stymied the US army for months/years.

From time to time I try to write actual source code, only to find myself stymied.

Power struggles are not stymied by an egalitarian approach.

Obviously balking the minute you're stymied is silly, too.

Major gating barriers that have stymied AGI's are disappearing.

I didn't agree with the tone of the article, but "Something happened" is a poor error message, and I feel bad for the devs who put so much work into an otherwise well-received launch to be stymied by their own coworker's uninformative error dialogues!