Lossage
<jargon> /los'*j/ The result of a bug or malfunction.
This is a mass or collective noun.
"What a loss!" and "What lossage!"
are nearly synonymous.
The former is slightly more particular to the speaker's present circumstances; the latter implies a continuing lose of which the speaker is currently a victim.
Thus (for example) a temporary hardware failure is a loss, but bugs in an important tool (like a compiler) are serious lossage.
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