Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Unable to use the askubuntu chat
Looks like this happened before Unable to log in to chat.
I use firefox 11.0. Followed the test on all looks ok, but I can't log in.
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1answer
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Ask Ubuntu Newsletter signs me up for Astronomy Newsletter?
I saw a community ad for the newsletter pop-up and subscribed
However, this is what I received in my inbox with regards to confirmation:
I do <3 Astronomy and all but I currently don't even have ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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Chat: Issue in Communicating On Chat
In the chat system i was able to talk. However, due to some strange issue in the system, the box in which I can type a message into disappeared, and I cannot get it back. Applies to any system I log ...
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1answer
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Voting on questions, answers and comments does not work [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Sidebar is all messed up.
Voting on askubuntu.com is completely broken. Each time I try to press the vote buttons on questions, answers and comments, I get an error:
An ...
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1answer
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Upload image from web: Does not accept IDNs
It's all in the title, really. I entered a URL and had to edit http://filedump.ýes.info/UbuntuPartitions.png to http://filedump.xn-es-zka.info/UbuntuPartitions.png. It appears to be failing here too ...
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0answers
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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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0answers
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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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0answers
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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 ...
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0answers
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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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0answers
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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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0answers
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Bounty button on mobile looks as if it's already rewarded on question with open bounties
I have a question with two answers, that I had an open bounty on.
When I opened the site on mobile to award the bounty before time runs out, the +100 buttons looked as if the bounty was already ...
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0answers
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Erroneous message pops up in close dialog
I try to vote to close a question, but am greeted with this error message:
So I patiently wait until 3 seconds have passed, try again, and get the same error, over and over again. What is wrong here?
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0answers
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MS Azure ads not showing correctly in the sidebar
I don't know if this is the right place to post this, but I've noticed something strange. Every ad for Azure that comes up in the sidebar on Ask Ubuntu is cut off on the right side, taking some text ...
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0answers
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Where is the “Log in with Stack Exchange” option?
How to login for AskUbuntu, there is a new login-screen.
But the Log in with Stack Exchange disappeared, that's the way I always did it. I don't have a seperate AskUbunut account.
I don't see it.
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0answers
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Spam question title still showing up in the <title> tag
The following question was flagged as spam and promptly deleted:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/626807 (only visible to 10k users)
The title displayed on the page states that:
"This question ...
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0answers
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“This post is deleted and cannot be edited.” text on a totally blank page
I have an error to report.
Today, I have started for the first time to review other users' questions and answers. So the error I am talking about never happened to me and I don't know if it was ...
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0answers
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CAPTCHA has no submit button
I took a long time to compose my post, and was prompted by a house-number captcha. Easy. Then I was re-prompted to copy&paste some code into a text box ... but there's no way to submit that form!
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0answers
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Unable to upvote or comment on answer
I was able to accept this answer, but I am unable to up vote or comment on it. When I click the Add comment button I get the following message:
User does not have permission to comment on this post
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0answers
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Recent Achievement Indicator [duplicate]
The Recent Achievement Indicator on both the main site and the meta site, aren't showing up to the minute info. For example in my case, I got 2 upvotes yesterday, and 1 about 3 hours ago, and all ...
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0answers
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Potential bug in rep change badge? [duplicate]
Okay, so this may just be a bug or some issue with my cache, but I noticed some errant behavior of the rep change indicator in the top bar. And it happens both here in meta and on Ask Ubuntu.
This ...
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0answers
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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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0answers
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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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0answers
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Usercard Formatting Sometimes Clipped
I noticed in a AU post today that a usercard was clipped on the right, cutting off the user's bronze-badges count:
Of course this clipping does not affect all usercards; most I have seen look fine.
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0answers
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Why does this question have 4 votes to migrate to Meta?
Why is this being shown on a review?
It has 4 close votes to migrate to Meta.
Why does it have 4 migration votes (unrelated to Meta)?
That option isn't even available for me on most questions (...
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0answers
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When viewed on a tablet, the very top navigation bar has no margin
I'm talking about the Community, Ask, Developer, Design, etc. bar. When viewed on a tablet, the entire bar is shifted to the left of the screen, so that it has no margin, is directly against the edge, ...
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0answers
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My favorite tags are empty [closed]
I am searching for unanswered questions on my favorite tags (mysql, lubuntu, virtualbox, and etc.)
But all of them are empty (zero unanswered) is this right? Or I'm having some kind of trouble?
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0answers
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Comments in mobile version of Ask Ubuntu
I am using my mobile to connect to Ask Ubuntu. But the problem is I can't remove/edit comments from mobile version of Ask Ubuntu. Is it problem of my mobile or a known issue in Ask Ubuntu?
Browser: ...
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0answers
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Images to apt links not appearing? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Software centre image link is broken
I keep seeing the message 'the image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available', and I discovered this only happens with ...
2
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1answer
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Line height bug in h1 tags
I've seen the bug on Line spacing cosmetics but it doesn't seem to address the bug I'm seeing.
If you take a look at this bug, on my screen at least (Ubuntu 10.04 Firefox 3.6.10 1280x800), the h1 ...
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2answers
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Posting An Answer
I been trying to answer this question discrete GPU not working after update, But when i press Post your Answer, Its posting as an comment, I have tried several times but still the same
Please have ...
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1answer
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I don't get hats when I log in
I'm not getting hats and I didn't click 'I hate hats'. What should I do? I login daily but it doesn't let me get hats!
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1answer
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Links in HTTPS site are always HTTP [duplicate]
All links in the HTTPS Ask Ubuntu, except for the navbar, are HTTP. Even if I specifically open https://askubuntu.com, navigating anywhere returns me to HTTP. Neither do I want it, nor it is an ...
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Is there a IP-based login?
Starting from today I noticed that I get logged out from time to time at SE. It doesn't matter if I'm active or not. So normally I browse the web using Tor. Thatswhy "my" IP address changes every ten ...
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2answers
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Image uploads broken [closed]
Title says it all. When I try to upload an image in a post, it just says that, "An error occurred at imgur"
Funny thing is, I can't even provide a screenshot of the error because I can't upload ...
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2answers
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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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1answer
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Deleted question showing in the review queue
I was going through the "First Posts" review queue and stumbled upon this:
https://askubuntu.com/review/first-posts/368555
However, when I clicked the link to view the question itself, I ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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User with 1 rep approved edit?
So I just suggested an edit, which got approved by a user with 1 rep.
How can he approve a suggested edit with 1 rep, while I cannot with 486 rep?
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1answer
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“Unanswered” questions tab shows answered questions
Why does the "Unanswered" tab in the main orange bar produce a result different than "Unanswered" in the "Questions" sub-tab?
Is there a way to make this less ambiguous?
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1answer
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A 404 error occurs on the tour page
I was looking at the tour, and the second link to the leadership code of conduct page results in a 404 error. Just a heads up.
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1answer
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No reputation for upvotes on meta? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How is reputation shared between Meta and Ask Ubuntu?
I asked a question (or rather, made a feature request) recently on meta. The question got upvoted 5 times but I did not ...
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2answers
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“Please vote on merge poll” … which has been closed for two months?
Today, I've created an account on askubuntu, and I got the "important notice" bar at the top of the screen, urging me to vote in the Ubuntu&Unix merge/no-merge poll. After clicking through, I was ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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1answer
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Cannot change email in Profile
I'm getting this error when I try to change my email. The email I'm trying to change to has previously been registered to SE, but I removed that login recently. That email is no longer (or shouldn't ...
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1answer
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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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1answer
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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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2answers
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User name missing in mobile version of askubuntu (I think!)
I'm pretty sure that your user name used to display when you were logged in and using the mobile version of the site, but now it appears to be missing. I've included a screenshot where I was using ...
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1answer
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Wrong reputation scale on FAQ
On the FAQ page the reputation scale from the Public BETA is still present where it should reflect the current scale.
