My friend came up with the 6 Stages of Debugging:

That can’t happen That doesn’t happen on my machine. That shouldn’t happen. Why does that happen? Oh, I see. How did that ever work?

Update: Looks like this is an old, but still relevant list.

Although you could apply the Kübler-Ross model too:

Denial – It must be user error! Are we sure their system is supported? Anger – By filing this bug you have questioned my family honour. Prepare to die! Bargaining – What if we just update the documentation? Can we tell the users this is a feature? Depression – All my code is broken! I have no idea what I am doing! I’m going to lose my job. Acceptance – Oh, that was easy to fix.

Do you ever find yourself in these stages?

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