Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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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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Glitch on profile page with dropdowns
The next privilege button on the profile page shows through the three drop-downs on the top.
I tend to start my browsing at this page then check my inbox so I see it every visit.
Chrome&Firefox
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What's the so called maliceous-voting-detection worth if this is happening? [duplicate]
I just got an interesting message that there had been maliceous voting on my account. Minus almost 6000 reputation.
Interesting question was if I perhaps created an additional account to vote for ...
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Some data lost after Stack Exchange server migration Feb. 9
As some of you have noticed, the SE admins were migrating the services to the NY data centre again yesterday.
Unfortunately, some data seems to have been lost in the minutes before the site became ...
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Is the ubuntu-desktop tag immortal ?
As of 2011-01-18, Jeff Atwood deleted the ubuntu-desktop tag.
One day later there are already new ubuntu-desktop questions.
Considering all askers are relatively new to askubuntu, I suppose they were ...
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who is http://viyals.com/, and why did I get routed through them to askubuntu.com?
I searched for a ubuntu question, and came to what appeared to be askubuntu.com. I was going to comment and tried to log in. It never worked. I looked at the url and it was viyals.com.
They are ...
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Weirdness on the election page - missing comments, and disqualified candidate is visible
I'm using chrome on a HTC one V and noticed two odd things when attempting to view the election page
Firstly, the candidate here has been disqualified (twice?) and dosen't turn up on the non mobile ...
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Minor alignment issue with downvote button
When casting a downvote upon a post, I noticed that the downvote arow is misaligned between when no vote is cast and when it is downvoted. You can see below a GIMP image showing the two images next to ...
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Why am I unable to retract this flag?
Today, I have flagged a question as being off-topic here (as the question seemed to be more about Windows than about Ubuntu), then, I had a second thought (the OP was a beginner in Ubuntu and closing ...
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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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What's up with the late answers queue?
It looks like we currently have 4400+ late answers awaiting review:
Obviously that's not possible, so what's up with that review queue?
Looks like a server-side issue, however using Google Chrome 45....
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I'm getting the suggested edits notification even though I'm a <10k rep user
Every now an then, the suggested edits notification pops up, but I'm not allowed to visit https://askubuntu.com/review/suggested-edits (getting the Page not found page), so I guess it's a mod tool for ...
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Cannot italicize words containing an underscore or an asterisk
This doesn't work:
*emphasized_text*
_emphasized_text_
*emphasized*text*
_emphasized*text_
This works:
<i>emphasized_text</i>
**more_bold**
**more*bold**
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Line break glitch with code tag
Line breaks with code involved leave a thin piece of the code formatting in the previous line:
This only seems to happen with the Opera browser (ver. 11.00/11.01).
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I've lost formatting in Firefox, but only for this site (ubuntu.stackexchange.com) !
This is weird! ...
In Firefox, for this site only, I've am getting a screen full of basic text (and an occasional .png), but I've lost most of the decoration. There is still a semblence of ...
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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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Grammar error (subject-verb agreement) in Help
In the Help Center, on the on-topic page, there's this block of text:
Questions that you may ask:
Using and administering official Ubuntu flavors including: Edubuntu,
Ubuntu GNOME, Kubuntu, ...
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Privileges page has broken alignment
This page has some messed up alignment in the right sidebar.
Here's what it should look like,
But when you click on the link it breaks.
This doesn't seem to be an issue on other StackExchange sites ...
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It takes too much reputation to quickly close a thread
It currently takes 3000 reputation to close a thread and there are only 15 people who aren't moderators who have 3000+ reputation points.
I thought the premise of the Stack sites was that they're for ...
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Typo in welcome banner
The welcome banner says
Welcome to Q&A site for Ubuntu users and developers
image:
It should probably say
Welcome to the Q&A site for Ubuntu users and developers
or,
Welcome to Q&...
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The "accepted" word is not visible under the "all actions" tab in the profile page
This bug exists on both sites, on meta and on main.
The word is there, but its text color is in the same as the background (technically, the background on the span is black, but has an opacity of 0, ...
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Number of people chatting
I know it's a small thing but to suggest there's 24 people chatting in the Ask Ubuntu rooms is misleading.
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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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The "contact us" link in the User Merge help page links to itself
It seems that https://askubuntu.com/contact/user-merge now redirects to https://askubuntu.com/help/merging-accounts (since a recent build of the site). Fine. However, the link on the page for further ...
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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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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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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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Hover state colour for the "Ask a Question" button in the tour is broken
This happens on Chrome 46:
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I get a post which I flagged before in review audit
I faced this already a couple of times.
In Late Answers or First Posts appears some stupid post that is not an answer.
I try to flag it, but it does not let me, because it seems that some time ago ...
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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 can't I VTC this as duplicate? It has an upvoted+accepted answer
Look at this question. I bumped into it using the Review Queue for Close Votes. I agree with the proposed duplicate, but I am unable to vote-to-close it:
The error This question does not have an ...
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Suggested edits count is broken, shows -1 [closed]
To replicate:
Get one or two suggested edits.
Load the suggested edits page.
Approve the edits really really quickly.
Watch.
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Little Bug with layer order on askubuntu
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, but i recently found a little rendering bug on this site. It's a problem of the z-index and the order of layers. Note: the red notification box was ...
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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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Problem with the review section
Today, I was reviewing new posts and came to a post titled as "Why does Ubuntu not ship with a way to fill in PDF forms?" which I found a low quality question and down-voted it. Surprisingly I got a ...
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Ask Ubuntu ads appear only as "Stack Android App" ads, not showing community ads
It seems that in the change to display the ads for the android app, I am now only seeing ads for the android app on Ask Ubuntu.
This has the unfortunate side effect that none of the community ads are ...
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Fix link to Ubuntu Leadership Conduct
Currently, in our Terms of Service, we have the following paragraph
When accessing the askubuntu.com, meta.askubuntu.com, or chat.askubuntu.com sites ("AskUbuntu"), Subscriber will also abide by ...
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How can this duplicate attract much more traffic than the linked question?
I just received a badge for a trivial answer to Unable to resolve host. This question was asked on 7 April 2012, has about 15.3k views and 15 upvotes. Shortly after posting my answer, I noticed the ...
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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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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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Why does the front page show my name for last activity even when I didn't perform anything recently?
I didn't edit/answer this question right now:
How to install Skype with Ubuntu 13.04
However, I did answer the question on May 16, but right now it's May 25.
How come it's showing that it has been ...
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typo in tooltip for Needs Improvement button
If you hover over the Needs Improvement button on the Community Evaluation page, a tooltip will pop up that says this question and its ansewrs need improvement:
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How does this happen? Or When to comment on an Answer?
Whenever reviewing Low-Quality Posts (Answers) I generally choose to comment if appropriate situation is detected, But if a comment is present on the answer already, should I select No comment Needed ...
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The Juju link in the top bar is incorrect
I just started playing around with the links at the top, seeing how they mirrored the Ubuntu.com links, and I noticed something.
The Juju link appears to be outdated. The one on AU goes to http://...
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Can the line-height in <li>s be a bit taller?
I was joking with somebody earlier about the line-spacing in their post. There's nothing wrong with the content, it's just hard to read. This is very easy to reproduce; just compare:
Lorem ipsum ...
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StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ colour issue
Opening up the StackExchange™ MultiCollider SuperDropdown™ after the recolouring on Ask Ubuntu main and hovering over the Stack Exchange logo results in dark grey on purple:
This is somewhat ...
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Login in option for launchpad no longer autoexpands, confusing
I don't remember when this changed but before when you clicked "log in with launchpad" the little options thing would autoexpand and let you put your username in a field so that you can use it to log ...
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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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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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