This Space for Rent

Fun with software development!

So.

Develop a Linux distribution.
Send it to QA.
Get a defect about some extraneous error message.
Close it with extreme prejudice (“It would involve rewriting the installer, and the distribution installs despite it”)
Wait a few weeks, aaaand...

OH MY GOD THE DISTRIBUTION DOESN'T WORK! PANIC PANIC!

This is a distribution that I'd, um, successfully installed the day before. Any bets that it's the "defect" mentioned in step 3 above?

Grrr.