Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Preserve tabs in code
Tabs are currently rendered as spaces in code blocks. I'm sure this is just a symptom of Markdown or an otherwise well-intentioned method to standardise code samples... However some code needs tabs to ...
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Why are there different styling in Meta from AskUbuntu?
I have noticed this a while, but it is just a bit weird.
Styling differences occur between different StackExchange sites. The most notable is the <kbd> tag, most of which render the contents of ...
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In the latest Google Chrome, KBD looks wrong [duplicate]
I have just downloaded the latest stable chrome, from the official website, and installed it. I then restarted chrome.
Now to me kbd elements look like the old style like this:
It is not happening ...
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AskUbuntu email notification not working
I had had my AskUbuntu profile's email setting
set to "notify me every three hours" for unread
AskUbuntu email messages but never received any
notifications about email messages that have been
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I didn't receive the notification that I'd gained a badge
So in my notification list, I have "You have earned the Curious badge'. But I received the Benefactor badge yesterday and I didn't get a notification for it. Why is this? Is it not meant to or is it a ...
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Review audit bug
When reviewing in the close vote queue I almost always start by clicking on the close button and then canceling that window, to see how the votes are standing on the question.
Because if I'm in the ...
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Icon Overlap CSS in Chrome
Encountered using Chrome 36.0.1985.125 on Mac OS X (10.9.4). It is not present in Firefox on either Mac or Linux. I'm not a Moderator (or 10K user) on any other sites, so I can't test and see if this ...
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From when it is possible to answer to a closed question?
As far as I know if a question will be closed and in the same time someone write an answer, then a message will appear to that person telling him that he can't answer anymore and everything what he ...
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Why is there small text randomly on the review history?
Some - about 2 thirds of the reviews - have got larger text, and the other third has small text - why? It is staring to really bug my OCDness that it is random - not even reviewed, no action needed (...
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I can Review close votes, but I don't have more votes to cast!
This post is interesting to Seth, since he has been in a similar situation.
Well, I have no more close votes for the day. But I only reviewed 19 questions, hence I have still access to the review ...
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Redirect loop when trying to log in for first time with Google account
I tried to login for the first time with my Google account. I may have already created an Askubuntu account years ago using the same gmail address. Now it sends me in a redirect loop when I click on "...
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Italic text in Links are not colored
For example in my answer here, if you open it on your mobile (Or just click mobile in the footer on your desktop browser), an italic link would look like this:
While on the desktop it's like so:
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Edit approval window makes no sense
As of today, I am entitled to approving edits. Twice now I have encountered edits that made no sense at all. Specifically, strings are inserted that I don't believe an editor would have put in there ...
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Unaligned Borders
Just noticed the unaligned borders in the navigation bar of the website.
In Firefox:
Also in Chrome:
I don't know if this question fits in meta askubuntu, but is it a bug or just a style?
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AU shows me as not logged in while I'm logged in
I'm using Firefox 24.6 ESR (usually in the form of Tor Browser) to access several SE sites. Usually I log in at Tor.SE and then move to other sites. AskUbuntu shows a unique behaviour among other SE ...
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Why I do not get notified about duplication notice comments?
My question here was voted to close as duplicated of another question, but I(tm) never got notified by the drop-down inbox, nor the SE inbox. Is this expected? Because if it's like this, most of our ...
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Why is close as duplicate flag present at two places? [duplicate]
Why is the option to flag a post as duplicate present twice, as shown in images?
I think the second of them needs to be removed(or justified)
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Why do chat posts appear twice at times?
Sometimes when I type in chat and post, it appears twice! Why does this happen? (Another user told me it is due to my slow internet connection. But can somebody elaborate and confirm it?) Also if the ...
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feed icon link is wrong in firefox
the askubuntu.com site has a rss/atom feed which is available via the rss icon in the awesomebar of firefox. if you click on that icon, the page firefox wants to open is feed://http//askubuntu.com/...
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Failed a review audit that has a close vote
This audit was failed, even trough the question has a close vote, and I was the one that casted the close vote. Why I'm shown an audit about a question I'm trying to close anyways?
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Broken review test
Moments ago a late answer popped up in the review queue with a link to a bash script debugger hosted at SourceForge. I started by editing the answer (which was not well formatted), but whenever I ...
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Very low quality flag on a closed question, can't do anything but invalidate the flag?
I got two VLQ flags in my queue... actually the question is impossible to understand by normal humans, but I can't handle the flag if I don't either, invalidate (which I will not), or add a spam/...
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I can't comment in the Review Queue, can you?
For a while I've been unable to be able to rant comment in the review queue... any review queue... well except the "suggested edit" queue... anyone experiencing this issue as well?
Ah, btw, ...
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Link broken in duplicate answer flags view
In the 10k+ tools for reviewing flags I see this glitch:
This link used to work (at least yesterday). I could then click on the link to go to the automatically marked duplicate answer.
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Some problems with pro-forma comments
I installed Pro-forma comments yesterday and it worked fine, I really like it. But today something is wrong. I can not see auto link near help. Also, when I flag question as duplicate, there does not ...
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Numbered lists get erroneous numbers
Look at my answer here: Printing multiple files from Nautilus
You'll see I have an ordered list 1-8. After the 6th item, I have a pre/code section and after that points 7 and 8. However, 7 and 8 is ...
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Why is all my flag history gone?
Just since an hour or so, my "helpful flags" count on Ask Ubuntu appears to be reset, and only on AU where I had about 400+ helpful flags raised. On other SE sites, it seems all fine though.
I also ...
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Why did my reputation decrease 20 points with a 'User was removed' summary?
You can see in the next picture that my reputation has decreased 20 points, and the summary says "User was removed".
I cannot understand nothing of what happened here.
Can someone explain to me ...
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Is there a bug at the election page?
I went into the election page to vote for the 2013 Community Moderators election (Primary).
But when I clicked into @green7's vote, it went strange:
turned into
8-15 = -7. How could this be -1?
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Table making bug
Markdown than is on SE doesn't support table making.
Read the Markdown sytax specs page — section Inline HTML.
Example table in Markdown (and HTML) is on http://paste.ubuntu.com/1633733/. That works ...
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Title is eaten by diff in suggested edit
While reviewing a suggested edit, I encountered something weird: a title is deleted and no title is inserted in the diff as can be seen below.
When I press the "improve" button, I see exactly the ...
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Why my `edit` facilities blocked? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Edit link Missing
I can't edit some of posts. The edit is blocked.
What cause i can't edit the posts?
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Site not updating at all [closed]
Since the site went into read only mode then came back, it has not updated at all. According to the question list, the last newest question was five hours ago. It is the same with some of the other ...
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unsaved comment edits are lost when showing new comments
When I do the following...
post a comment
start editing the comment I recently posted
see that newer comments have been posted
click the link to show the newer comments
...my editing of my [less ...
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matched parentheses in hyperlinks are not handled correctly
When a hyperlink contains a ( character that is matched at the end of the URL by a ) character, AskUbuntu should recognize that the final ) character is part of the URL. However, currently that is not ...
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Multiple/multiline commands (terminal command formatting) in chat don't work?
If I use (for example):
Run grun fishsticks and then
sudo breadcrumbs in a terminal.
The system fails to render this correctly.
Instead it renders:
Run `grun fishsticks` and then
`sudo ...
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Migrated posts can be voted twice
I remember to have upvoted the question and answer https://askubuntu.com/q/97569/6969 and after migration to meta I thought, good question and answer, let's upvote it.
After that, I realized that I'...
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Bug with images?
I put this in my question to include 2 screenshots:
![MP3 Tunes v2 (v1 was much better)][1]
![The largest accurate screenshot I found of v1 >.<][2]
And this is what happened:
The first ...
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Why is my flag weight displayed with decimals [closed]
My flag weight is displayed with decimals. Currently it reads "510.0000" both on my user page for the main site and on my flagging summary page for the main site (no sense in linking the latter since ...
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Bug Found in SE chat's upload feature
There is a bug in chat's upload feature ,If you had previously posted an image using upload and you open up the dialouge again without selecting a pic and press cancel it reposts the previous image ...
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Incorrect Consecutive days visit count
I always check out Askubuntu and WordPress Answers several times a day. I have been a consecutive visitor of both for 59 days now. MY profile over at WPA shows it right but AskUbuntu is not. How can ...
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Why can I create tags at 150 rep
I was wondering why is that I can create tags at 150 rep only. On other sites that limit is 500 rep and how come I can retag questions 200 rep
EDIT:For that I have to edit the question too which ...
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Unable to log in to chat
When I try to enter the General chat room, the message "You must be logged in to talk" is displayed.
Clicking "logged in" takes me to a page titled "Change OpenID" which lists OpenID providers. When ...
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"meta" and "parent" navigation links in header missing
Main site:
On meta:
Update: also on the meta bar the chat link sends me to http://chat.meta.askubuntu.com/ which does not work
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Blockquote button broken?
Blockquote
Blockquote> HelloBlockquote
Blockquote
Above is an example of what I get when trying to create a blockquote using the toolbar button. I'm fairly sure this isn't what's meant to happen. I'...
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The "Ask Question" link opens up previous question in "Edit" mode.
Clicking on "Ask Question" takes me to expected URL:, but the displayed page is primed with the tags, title, and contents of my previous question:
What is going on here? I have tried two different ...
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Markdown isn't parsed after a question rollback.
I just rolled back this question and now the Markdown hyperlink appears unprocessed:
When I click Edit, the preview displays correctly, so I know there isn't a syntax mistake:
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Can we add a little more space on the User Activity page? (Graphical glitch)
After doing an edit, where the entry shows up on the activity page, the underline from the link is partly hidden by the highlighted section which says what the edit was. Screenshot:
Could we add a ...
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Two visual annoyances in the header [closed]
Not really bugs, but:
Can we please get the same arrow to expand SE and user menus?
Please vertically center the links left to the search field.
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"Review completed": why isn't the fate of that post decided?
I am talking about https://askubuntu.com/questions/338436/i-cannot-get-vpn-to-prompt-me-for-userid-and-password-when-the-always-ask-opti
At the same time the review screen shows
while the question ...
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