Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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{Bug Report} Launchpad SSO no longer functions with Ask ubuntu
For some time now, there's been known issues with Launchpad logins and them simply 'failing' with unknown error messages.
Originally this was with registrations, and users received an error message ...
Thomas WardMod
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Erroneous Prompt on Down-vote
When I attempt to downvote a an answer on AskUbuntu, I get the message: "You need at least 125 reputation to cast a vote..." (screen capture below). This is in error. I have 121 reputation ...
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Opera: logging in using Google does not offer a reset password
Fresh 24.04. Firefox asks for mail and then there is a message sent to my phone that lets me log in. So no need for a password. (FF 24.04 version does not let me download anything so time to review my ...
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The new UI has two search fields on an iPhone and does not display properly
I noticed yesterday that the UI for AskUbuntu has changed, but I’m having an issue with the search field on an iPhone with the Safari browser. As it stands, there are two spyglasses in the top menu ...
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Can't connect to askubuntu with Ubuntu SSO
I could not log on my original account throught SSO on askubuntu.
I've tryed on Firefox, Chromium (fresh install with the purpose of this test, no extension).
How to reproduce:
New private window: ...
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Notification links to wrong StackExchange site
Moderator Note: This is already reported on the main StackExchange meta site: Positive reputation notification for edit approvals uses relative URL, which causes the link to go to the wrong place
You ...
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Ask Ubuntu on mobile has an extremely large font size
When using Ask Ubuntu on Android, the font is too large when it comes to anything except post content and comments.
I can reproduce the issue exists in Firefox and in Chrome.
The issue is exclusive to ...
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How to write the grave accent to add code in the comment section?
I have a magic keyboard from Apple set on US language and I try to find the keyboard shortcut for the grave accent (`) to add code in the comment section on askubuntu.com.
I don't want to copy-paste ...
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How to better take care of already answered questions?
I posted a question which was already answered. As the 10th of 12 answers. Despite of my question precluding the 9 previous answers, it was still marked as "This question already has answers here&...
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In First Question filters, it suggests 14.04
In the filters of "First Question" queue, it is suggesting 14.04.
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Bug: Moderator not getting the mod tag but being tagged as a bot in mod actions for comments
This happened on this post's deleted comment - visible to moderators and staff as it's a deleted comment:
This is a post done by a reviewer and masked by the Community bot.
Mitch is an actual diamond ...
Thomas WardMod
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Change the links in Ask Ubuntu Meta contact page
I recently noticed the Ask Ubuntu Meta contact page.
The Yahoo link redirects to https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account
The Google link is HTTP and redirects to https://about.google/contact-google/.
The ...
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BUG : Unanswered questions?
Hello Today I was browsing through all the questions...
I was seeing and almost all the questions were answered. So I selected the "unanswered category" of questions.
By default, sort by ...
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Is Total Reputation Calculated Differently to a Time-based Reputation?
As the title suggests, I am curious to know whether the "total reputation" for an account is calculated differently from the different time-based reputations. While looking at the Year 2021 ...
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Why does the tag `20.10` Even exist If it is off topic?
Why does the tags of the releases who have met there end life even exists for eg -
20.10
19.04
16.04
What are the point of still using these tags ? When all the questions about them are off topic , I ...
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Community Ads not being displayed
According to this statement:
September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher and no downvotes will be displayed (except ...
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Inconsistent date in close description
I am talking about this question: Software Updater is saying "You stopped the check for updates". What should I do?
The question was asked 11 months ago and the question was closed 12 ...
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I asked a question but now I can not find it
I asked a question:
Create Bash Alias That Accepts Commands
but now I can not find it.
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Change the links in Ask Ubuntu contact page
There are two links in Ask Ubuntu contact page.
The first one is for contacting Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/about/contact-us (HTTP 😶)
This redirects to https://ubuntu.com/contact-us. I feel the ...
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Why is an answer shown in First posts review queue when I filtered it for only questions?
I was in the First posts review queue reviewing posts. I noticed this suddenly:
Link: https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/1163303
As you can see in the screenshot, I have used the filter option ...
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Search is not working in Ask Ubuntu Help Center
I searched "flag" in Ask Ubuntu help center and I got this error:
Oops! Something Bad Happened!
We apologize for any inconvenience, but an unexpected error occurred while you were browsing ...
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Flairs are not visible in https://askubuntu.com/election
The flairs of the moderators are not visible in https://askubuntu.com/election. Refer this screenshot:
When I try to open image in new tab in Firefox, it's completely blank:
When I try to open image ...
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How can I ask others to verify a bug report I have filed?
I have filed a bug report on Launchpad against a package.
I would like other users to verify this bug report.
Would asking a question on AskUbuntu for others to verify the bug be against AskUbuntu ...
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Please, I want to take back my "upvote" from a comment
So I read a comment, it seemed good, so I "upvoted" it (with the teeny-weeny little triangle).
Then in like 15 seconds I spotted that somehow I skipped over an important detail that actually ...
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Box disappears when mouse hovers over it
When I hover the mouse over "post your question", that box disappears.
I am using Seamonkey 2.53.6 with Ubuntu Mate 18.04.
It does not occur when using newest Firefox.
Is that normal ...
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Whats the idea behind that "new" review UI?
I just got a big surprise :-((
This looks like someone is trying very hard to drive reviewers away
difficult to identify the post in question (is it the Q or the A?)
"link" to see post in ...
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The new cookie consent banner is way larger than needed
I don't like cookies. My browser is set to discard them after it is closed.
I have no problem with logging in every time I reopen the browser and want to use a Stack network
in a non-read-only way and ...
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What has happened with the "Steward" badge?
I got all of them a second time a couple of minutes ago.
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Image uploader provides wrong image
I am trying to add a screenshot to a question of mine.
After I select the picture with the "browse" link, the small preview shows the correct image.
But when I click the "Add picture&...
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Cookie consent banner won't stay away
Whenever I click the Accept all cookies button on the cookie consent banner at the bottom of the page, it disappears, but then it reappears again as soon as I navigate to another page or reload the ...
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Flagged a question before I saw it in First Posts review queue. I cannot click "I'm Done"
The question which I'm referring to in the title is this: Error : If you do not go back to the partitioning menu and correct these errors, the partition will be used as is
I flagged this question 2 ...
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Before I ask a question the similar posts suggestions do not scroll properly
I started to post my first post and was offered similar posts, but when I scrolled, I saw this problem in Firefox. The text is scrolling behind the original text that I saw.
There's no no preview ...
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Is it "Ask Ubuntu Meta" or "Meta Ask Ubuntu"?
I sometimes have a doubt if the meta site of Ask Ubuntu is Ask Ubuntu Meta or Meta Ask Ubuntu.
Let's look into some details (to understand why I'm confused).
If we click on the Stack Exchange icon at ...
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Links inside comments replacing current page rather than taking me to new tab url
It appears, adding comment with link to post at askubuntu.com loading new url to current page rather than new tab.
How about adding a target="_blank" with every link so I dont lose my ...
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Publish question button is disabled
I recently posted a question, but after reviewing the question I noticed the Post Question button is disabled.
I tried to make little changes in the question body without success.
Finally, I edited ...
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Close reason are using HTTP instead of HTTPS
In the "community-specific reason" close reasons, all links to an SE site or article are using HTTP instead of HTTPs.
This applies to all the close reason that include links in them:
Not about ...
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"Oops! Something Bad Happened!" while opening user profile
I can't seem to get to my user profile. It was working 5 minutes ago. The rest of the web site seems fine.
Ideas?
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No first post reviews for 13 hours?
I was reading this Meta question about a lack of first post reviews on multiple sites. It got my curiosity, so I went to the first post review queue and noticed there had not been a review in the ...
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Get updates ... OK-box does not disappear
When clicking on "following" of a question after the suggestive "Get updates..." ok/box, that box does not disappear and the subsequent boxes that appear show below that pesky box. So I cannot read ...
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Final code block is rendered differently from Edit preview
This is seen the formatting of the answer at https://askubuntu.com/a/1104744/37574:
The code block is enclosed in triple-backticks, but displayed as though it were in single-backticks.
If I try ...
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Weird wording in the "needs clarity" notice
Following kulfy's advice I posted this bug report on meta.se (https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/341037/206420), but would like to keep this question for visibility (at least for a while)
The "needs ...
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Ask Ubuntu Answer Section all over the page - Bug Report [duplicate]
AskUbuntu answer sections appear to be broken, their layout/css is out of wack on multiple freshly installed browsers. Tested latest version of Google Chrome and Firefox on Linux Mint and Debian Linux....
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Part of the question & answers are now hidden by blog & other details on the right
I'm not used to writing questions; but the site is offering me Similar questions above where I'm typing, but I cannot read much of the text as the right side of it is covered by the "How to format" ...
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Prior red notification for low quality posts queue
When I finished to review the Low Quality Posts Queue, I noticed the Red notification that is displayed, as you can see below :
I tried to understand why it shows itself again, because I didn't do 20 ...
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Short answer is automatically converted to a comment
When I was entering an answer, to my own question, it put my answer as a comment instead. I tried it again, and the same thing happened again. I kept the two attempted answers -- that got strangely ...
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A reviewed post not displayed again in the review queue
When I press ← Back in Firefox in the AU review queue, I can usually view the post I’ve just reviewed together with votes of other reviewers. However, sometimes, the post is not shown again.
This ...
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Month and Quarter reputation tab borked?
When I went to look at the Quarter reputation tab I noticed I'm number 1 in the stats and the same goes for the month but
as I know I'm vastly inferior to Rinzwind 0:-) I'm suspecting something is ...
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Since a few days, no rep changes occur "in green", not getting pinged
Feels like a silly question, but someone please shine a brilliant light on this: Since a few days, none of the rep changes occurred "in green" on any of my devices, (so not) like this:
just ...
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Heads-up: Off-topic twice in filter menu
As I noticed on both Ask Ubuntu and Unix & Linux that the word "off-topic" was appearing twice in the filter when working the close queue:
I directly took it to meta.se as it wasn't ...
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Profile images from Facebook don't always show up
See, for example, this new user: https://askubuntu.com/users/932262/alessandro-consalvi. On both their posts and their profile, I cannot see an image. If I try to view the image directly, I get this ...
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