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Undocumented exceptions

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#24,043 opened on Oct 7, 2017

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Description

Some days ago I generated a list of Exceptions without inline documentation. Here it is:

 Base.DNSError
 Base.Distributed.BatchProcessingError
 Base.LibGit2.Error.GitError
 Base.LinAlg.ARPACKException
 Base.LinAlg.LAPACKException
 Base.LinAlg.PosDefException
 Base.LinAlg.RankDeficientException
 Base.LinAlg.SingularException
 Base.Pkg.Entry.PkgTestError
 Base.Pkg.PkgError
 Base.Pkg.Resolve.MaxSum.UnsatError
 Base.PrecompilableError
 Base.SimdLoop.SimdError
 Base.SparseArrays.CHOLMOD.CHOLMODException
 Base.SparseArrays.UMFPACK.MatrixIllConditionedException
 Base.Test.FallbackTestSetException
 Base.UVError                                                          
 ~Base.WrappedException~   
 InvalidStateException
 SegmentationFault
 UnicodeError

Some of those are quite prominent, e.g. PosDefException.

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Find the source files for each listed exception (e.g., linalg for PosDefException) and add inline docstrings describing when the exception is thrown and typical causes.
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