The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
schroedinbug
/shroh'din?buhg/, n.
[MIT: from the Schroedinger's Cat thought-experiment in quantum physics] A
design or implementation bug in a program that doesn't manifest until
someone reading source or using the program in an unusual way notices that
it never should have worked, at which point the program promptly stops
working for everybody until fixed. Though (like bit rot) this sounds
impossible, it happens; some programs have harbored latent schroedinbugs
for years. Compare heisenbug, Bohr bug, mandelbug.