no error found vs no errors found

The phrases are both correct, but they would be used in dissimilar contexts. 'No error found' is used when referring to a single error that was not found, while 'No errors found' is used when referring to multiple errors that were not found.

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no error found

This phrase is correct when referring to a single error that was not found.

This phrase is used when you want to indicate that a single error was not found in a specific context.

Examples:

After thorough examination, no error found in the system.
The report concluded with no error found in the calculations.

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No current MySQL error log found.
Error: No templates found or unable to add breakpoint.
Since he made no reference to any statements of fact that we made we must conclude that he found no errors of fact.
Errors found during the implementation period may be corrected by adjustment of subsequent claims.
Errors found ex-post will be the subject of a recovery order.
The producer group must rectify the consequences of any errors found.
errors found in the procedure of clearance of accounts for financial year 2010
The result of adjustments carried over from previous years has been updated to correct for an error found in the lease liability amount at 31 December 2002.
Errors found while parsing some lines in the input file
known error found in the completeness test of Annex II and III A
Errors found during the implementation period may be corrected by adjustment of subsequent claims, as permitted under article 20 of the Financial Regulation and article 14 of the Implementing Rules.
For the policy group Cohesion, Member States' systems for correcting errors found by national controls are, in most cases, at least partially effective.
Not only is it the duty of the Court to report on the errors found in its audits but we should also ensure that our audit findings are interpreted and used correctly.
About half the errors found were attributable to national and regional authorities, and the other half to the final beneficiaries.
The Court also gives a qualified opinion to the policy group Economic and financial affairs due to errors found in transactions relating to the Sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development.
Most of the errors found relate to serious failures by national authorities to apply rules on public procurement and to the reimbursement of ineligible costs.
Most of the payment errors found by the Court are due to problems of inadequate financial management and control and it is only in the case of a small proportion of the errors found that further reinvestigation by OLAF or the Member States' authorities is justified.
The Commission argues that the errors found and reported by the Court are of little import since the various multi-annual correction mechanisms detect and correct errors and irregularities when the programmes are finalised.
As an illustration of this, last year, some 200 detailed Statements of Preliminary Findings, covering some 1000 individual errors found by the Court, were addressed to and discussed in detail with the Commission and the Member States.
MEPs regard as "a major achievement" the Commission's undertaking "to correct all individual errors found in the Court's annual report on 2006" with the commitment to make 100% corrections in all cases of "serious breaches of public procedure".

Alternatives:

No mistake found
No issue found
No problem found
No fault found
No flaw found

no errors found

This phrase is correct when referring to multiple errors that were not found.

This phrase is used when you want to indicate that multiple errors were not found in a specific context.