Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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5 seconds between comment edit is broken
4 minutes after posting a comment I quickly fixed a sentence. Too quickly, as I made a typo. Trying to fix the typo as fast as possible, I got "You may only edit a comment every 5 seconds". So I ...
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Shortcut for adding quotes causes program to quit
While editing a long answer with a large block of text to quote, I held my mouse over the button for quoting, and noted that the shortcut to add quotes is Ctrl+Q.
The use of 'Q' makes sense, but it ...
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Editing race condition?
OP and I both edited this question at the exact same second. My revision is shown, but the revision history says OP's is the most recent.
I think this is a bug, since the most recent revision should ...
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Sum of "last period" reputation is wrong when a post I downvoted is deleted
When our reputation changes, the title of reputation tab in our profile includes how many internet points we received or lost since we last viewed the reputation page.
During that same period, I had ...
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There is something wrong with backslash ("\") behaviour in comments
I was writing comment to the question(about Samba, so it uses UNC with backslashes).
The source code of my comment:
On Linux you should use `//` instead of `\\`. On Windows you should use only `\\`. ...
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2 year old user is a new contributor?
Just saw this:
a 1400 rep new user? Wow! He's learning fast until I clicked his profile and he's a 2 YO user?
Bug?
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Not getting some of the comment and badge notifications
Comments Notifications: I recently commented on this post. Earlier whenever I used to comment on a post and get a reply from OP just after my comment even without mentioning my name, I used to get ...
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Mod Tools/Panel: Misaligned "Flag Types" Section
This must have changed within the past couple hours, but where we would normally see that nice sidebar in the mod panel with all the flag types and such no longer appears there, where the red freeform ...
Thomas WardMod
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Big titles don't work on <kbd> tag
As we all know from unformatted config files, the # can make
Very
Big
Titles
Unfortunately, there where it matters as in making the following more readable:
Alt+space and then ↓↓↓↓↓Enter
in this ...
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The StackExchange website keeps me logged in between sessions without asking me
The login screen for StackExchange/AskUbuntu has no option to select or deselect a "keep me logged in" function, but it retains the login by default.
Retaining an everlasting login session without ...
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Badges getting cut in half
Seems like the badges are getting cut in half. Attaching the screenshot below
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Bug with code of conduct notification
Not sure if this is related to the new theme that's being worked on or not, but:
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Why user is able to edit comments in multiple textareas in the same time?
By accident I have clicked edit link on comment twice.
After first click I have textarea for editing it (it is normal and expected behavior).
But on second and third click on edit I get garbage:
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Ask Ubuntu mysterious/mispositioned "See votes, expandable usercard" overlay just started appearing on Dashboard page
This overlay just started appearing, and I can't seem to get rid of it.
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Text on Ask Ubuntu overwrites other text
This occurred today and at other times. Anyone else experienced it?
It has occured on 16.04 and 18.04.(Ubuntu Mate)
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Cannot properly see a comment I'm adding with Firefox for Android
On Firefox for Android, when I try to add a comment, the bottom half of the text is hidden. And stuff like punctuations cannot be seen at all.
It works better in Google Chrome, however, so the issue ...
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The top menu has moved to the left
The top menu has moved to the left. I checked in two different browsers.
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behavior bulleted list/code [duplicate]
There is a weird behavior about code when write after Bulleted list.
Example :
When Bulleted list is before code:
1rst affirmation
2nd affirmation
weird code really bad
another code annoying
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How to search AU for a string containing “$”?
Today I tried to search for this answer, but the only thing I could remember from it was $_, so I tried to search for this term:
https://askubuntu.com/search?q=%24_
To my surprise the result page ...
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Date of answer earlier than question [duplicate]
Question
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Network Manager cannot add VPN - greyed out
is dated as "asked Apr 9 '17 at 17:52".
This answer is dated as "answered Jan 28 '17 at 20:50".
How can this be understood?
Am ...
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Launchpad OpenID no longer working
Recently when I was asked to log back in to askubuntu, I got taken to a different launchpad page that asked me what kind of access I wanted to give to askubuntu, including access to modify private bug ...
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Syntax highlighting doesn’t work on meta
When I enter
<!-- language-all: lang-bash -->
if :; then echo "quoted"; fi
in a post on main, the output looks like this:
Here on meta, the very same code gets no syntax highlighting at ...
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Mobile view adds linebreaks before and after images even if they are very small
If my answer uses a package one has to install first, I like to add an AptURL link with the small package symbol , e.g. for sl using this:
[`sl` ](http:...
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Insert link doesn't work as expected
Whether this is a bug might be open to interpretation. However, in the spirit of continuous improvement I thought I'd bring this up. When inserting a link we get the following prompt.
Placing an ...
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Mixed apostrophes in “unclear what you’re asking” description
I stumbled across the following sentence in the description of “unclear what you’re asking” close reason:
As it's currently written, it’s hard to tell exactly what you're asking.
The first it's as ...
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Is this legal? Someone earned a bounty answering his question
Look at this post
How to efficiently partition a single Windows-Ubuntu dual boot disk?
I'm just wondering, what happened here… Could I make the same?
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Shouldn't the system prevent accidental verbatim duplicates?
This question is a verbatim duplicate of that question. They had the same title and body (until one of them was edited), are by the same author, and appear to have been posted within the same second, ...
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How do tag subscriptions work?
I know I can hover over a tag and click on subscribe. It then says I get an email. In the email it says I should confirm. When I click the link (https://stackexchange.com/filters/email-confirm/<...
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I made an edit but didn't realise I was not logged in
I made an edit to a post but didn't realise I was not logged in until after I submitted the change. Is there any way to assign it to me?
This happened only a few moments ago, the edit number is ...
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Yearling badge awarded multiple times today
I'm getting some odd behavior on the site today, it's awarded me the yearling badge 5 times over and keeps doing so every hour or so, perhaps in response to some actions I'm taking, but I can't tell ...
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Question editor toolbar is vertically aligned in Chromium 27
The question editor toolbar is now vertically aligned instead of horizontal.
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Ask Ubuntu site layout is wrong on Mozilla Firefox and SeaMonkey
I use Mozilla Firefox ESR 52.6.0 and Mozilla Seamonkey 2.49.2 on Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS x86_64 and Windows 8.1 x86_64 with installed updates.
After some updates of site design its layout is somehow broken ...
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Reviewers strange behavior
This question got closed because it was judged as a question about a bug in GIMP. The question was about a 4.8 MB .jpg file that rendered correctly in GIMP, but not when it was uploaded to the author'...
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Why can I see all the meta review queues but not access any of them?
I understand that I have access to review queues, but not on meta, yet I can access it (presumably because SO's making a decision that I have review queue access on AskUbuntu), but I can't do anything ...
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Words seem to be missing in "Share a link to this question..." message
Right above the Answer box, we have the Share a link to this question message. This is how I see it:
I'm using Firefox Quantom with uBlock.
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Off-topic flagging links should be HTTPS now
When flagging a question, most links in the dialog that comes up are now HTTPS instead of HTTP, but it seems like the off-topic links (in Flagging > Closing > Off-Topic and in Flagging > Closing > Off-...
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Video tutorials timing out
Just wanted to let you know that the video tutorials are timing out.
https://askubuntu.com/help/on-topic.
Video Tutorials for using the site
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Why didn't 6 reviewers' recommendations delete this answer?
This answer was flagged as low quality and reviewed by 7 users. All but one reviewer Recommended Deletion, and the review now claims to be completed, both on the review page and on the timeline, but ...
ZannaMod
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Where do I submit a change proposal for a close vote comment?
case:
The text for NoRepro
This describes a problem that can't be reproduced that seemingly went away on its own or was only relevant to a very specific period of time. It's off-topic as it's ...
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Login with Launchpad account not possible anymore
For the last two days I haven't been able to login to Ask Ubuntu with my Launchpad account. When I click on the button, it disappears and only the Google and Facebook buttons are available. I have ...
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Why does the site tease me about a comment I can't view?
A deleted answer marked as spam shows a "show 1 more comment" link, but clicking the link does not show the comment. Reloading the page does not make the problem go away. The deletion itself is ...
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Very confusing audit (maybe a bug?)
I just came across this review audit which really confused me a lot. My first urge was to flag it and this confronted me with the following dialog (see screen-shot):
I finally simply down-voted this ...
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Adding a comment = audit failed?
I just failed my first audit on this question.
I got the question in first post review where it was displayed without any comment, I began writing a comment suggesting to add a screenshot to clearify ...
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Reporting bug when upvoting comments
I've seen this bug couple of times before, no big deal but I'm just reporting it here since it happened to me now on AU.
sudo: No protocol specified in Ubuntu 17.10
I wanted to upvote the first ...
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The review menu opens and immediately springs closed if clicked when logged out
I had a tab open in Firefox from when I was logged in. Not realizing I had been logged out of the site, I clicked the review icon in the top bar. The menu that would ordinarily show me the review ...
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New navbar bug review queues not operating as expected
This is different from Review queue false negatives on the new top bar which has been dismissed as status-by-design. When I first logged on this morning the review queue indicator was not lit. After ...
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Review queue false negatives on the new top bar
I've reviewed several posts regarding the new top bar such as:
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/357621/review-queue-updates-icon-poll
https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/355236/the-new-...
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Unpublished questions written on mobile site not showing on desktop site
When I write questions on the mobile Ask Ubuntu site but leave them unpublished, the question is saved on the mobile site, but I can't access it from the desktop site. I can access it on another ...
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