Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Can't reject an edit
I was reviewing some edits today and went to reject one (which one is irrelevant). After clicking on the reject button I selected the custom option and typed in my reason. I then clicked the reject ...
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Chat link in top bar missing?
This morning, I sit at my desk, almost spill my coffee, get settled and open firefox 5.0.1 and what do I see? The chat link is missing. WTF mate, like my morning could have started any worse?
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Wrong link pulled into report when recording an exact duplicate on another SE site
When reporting this question on SF as an exact duplicate of this one over on DBA, the description of question 2868 on SF is pulled through, not the description of question 2868 on dba.se.
The comment ...
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Daily Vote Limit Reached at 38 Votes
I've voted 38 times today and can't up/down-vote any questions or answers, getting the Daily Vote Limit Reached message.
Does flagging a comment as Spam count against these? Or any other actions?
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No editing toolbar
It appears something has broken, for me at least. The editing toolbar is currently not visible when posting a question or answer, yet if I edit an existing one it's fine. I tried FF, IE and Camino on ...
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What's going on with tags on profile pages on SF?
Owww, my eyes.
(10/12/10, 15:09pm, Windows 7 32-bit, IE 8)
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Serverfault cut off/truncated on long post?
Hi All,
I was reading a Jeff Attwood post on ServerFault here (quite a long one, but not obscenely long) and saw that the last part of the question got cut off:
Cut off text http://www.41085.org/SF-...
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Is there recourse for abusive moderation?
I asked this question about yum and Apache, which is a perfectly fine question for this site. A site moderator stepped in and issued comments that were not helpful to answering the question as asked. ...
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About Page example question is "How to prevent unicorns from eating daisies"
It's probably not good to encourage users to ask questions that are wildly off-topic for the site.
Not sure when this got changed/borked, but it was working correctly a week or so ago when I looked ...
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Link to "learn more" about a tag is unclickable in Google Chrome
Link to "learn more" about a tag is unclickable in Google Chrome.
Steps to reproduce bug:
Open page to "Ask Question"
Start typing in the "Tags" field at the bottom
Mouse over any one of the tags
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Is there a sudden large influx of spam suggested edits?
This morning there were six suggested edits waiting in the queue. Three of them were spam:
https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/103613
https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/103614
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Comments won't commit
Any ideas why I can no longer post comments? I can type a comment, and the Add Comment button seems to submit, but the page then refreshes without my comment.
I've cleared my temp. Internet files (...
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Extra word in help document
I had cause to post text from https://serverfault.com/help/closed-questions in a comment today, and there's a section that reads
too broad - if your question could be answered by an entire book, ...
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Logon to ServerFault with android is problematic with Google
All - mobile on Android.
When I switched over from OpenId to using Google for auth, the logon page repeatedly reloads, and I cannot even logon. Interestingly, if I switch to an incognito browser ...
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Add-comment box placeholder text ends mid sentence
When the add-comment box is not focused it has a placeholder text, which ends mid sentence:
"Use comments to ask for more information or suggest improvements.
Avoid comments like "
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This question appears to be off-topic because it is about <end>
When voting to close, it's possible to select a custom close reason. The default text is:
This question appears to be off-topic because it is about
I've seen a number of comments auto-added to ...
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Another bad review audit: same audit question [duplicate]
While reviewing close votes, I got the same review audit twice in short succession:
Even if it wasn't pretty obviously an audit, it's certainly not effective to give me the same audit 8 reviews after ...
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Cannot re-open from mobile site
Tapping the re-open button when on the mobile site just throws a JS error and jumps you to the top of the page.
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Why can I get into the close vote review queue with no close votes left?
Before the close reason reform, this screen could never occur. Now, I can get there, and review things edit or leave open, but not closed. Assuredly this should not be.
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Review bug: I pick "leave closed" and it pops up "Nominate for re-opening?" [duplicate]
I don't have screen shots, but it's happened twice now, so there must be a bug related to the new close reasons being activated on SF...
When reviewing re-opens, after reading the question and ...
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What's the question title doing over there?
Probably from a change to all.css, which seems to have just changed 20 minutes ago?
Last-Modified: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:19:21 GMT
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serverfault main formatting has a problem in Chrome Browser
Looks like there is some type of problem in the site forwarding for some reason. Could this be some type of missing style sheet or something because in my browser, it renders nothing like the other ...
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Serverfault.com DNS issue
While developing my DNS checking tool and running test reports I've noticed a DNS issue with ns4.serverfault.com:
Full report here:
http://www.dnsinspect.com/serverfault.com
Different glue is ...
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Why does my reputation show more points for an answer than the answer does?
My reputation page shows I've received 65 rep points for https://serverfault.com/a/484944/10380 but the answer itself only shows 5 points. Is this a bug? Or am I failing to understand how this works?...
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migrated questions appear under `active` but not `newest`?
Just had my question migrated from stackoverflow, but couldn't find the question anywhere until I looked in active. Shouldn't the question also appear in newest?
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Bug in /review, shows me deleted answer for review.
I just had a case where the review system for first posts showed me an answer for review that was already deleted by a mod 23h ago (originally this answer ). It also was listed with 0 votes, while it ...
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Answered color styling on Meta [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Color scheme in questions lists needs some help
This is a meta-meta bug report: number of answers in an "accepted" box is pretty much unreadable on Meta SF:
Would be great if ...
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How many gold badges do I have?
The summary of how many badges I have, shown in my user profile, shows three gold badges. Yet the list of badges shows four. What is the cause of this apparent discrepancy?
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When listing Meta Serverfault SE questions -- Wrong author info is being displayed
I just listed questions on the Meta SE site by pressing the Question button and notice that instead of seeing the avatar of the AUTHOR of the question.....it is showing the avatar of one of the ...
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Problem posting a comment
Here we go again. I received the displayed error while trying to post a comment. Posting a comment to a different answer to the same question worked fine (it was just a test, so I deleted it again), ...
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Can't open close vote pop-up (again)
It's really hard to clean up the site when the close vote pop-up doesn't pop up.
This isn't the first time sand I tried repeatedly, even flushing the browser cache and the proxy cache between tries.
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VTC tallies messed up?
As I was working through the /review VTC queue earlier today, I noticed my VTC count was up past 250 or so. I just went back to the queue to use up today's VTC quota, and saw my rally was down around ...
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Accepted answer on rep page not aligned with background
As one can see in the screenshot below, the background is not aligned with the [+15] on the rep page for an accept, and lets the text "bleed"(for lack of better terminology) into the rest of the page:
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Cannot edit my answer
I just posted an answer and immediately noticed a typo. It now won't let me get back in to edit the post. I retried several times and also waited between tries. I even left the page and returned to ...
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Why was a question I answered automatically deleted?
A few minutes ago I noticed the mysterious disappearance of 65 reputation from my Server Fault account. On looking into it, I found that this question, which I'd answered last month, had been deleted. ...
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Bug finder at your service
Is it just me or are others experiencing issues with SF? Here's my latest, which occured when I clicked on the inbox button to read the message I apparently have:
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Access denied but why?
The significant part of the browser message:
While trying to retrieve the URL: http://serverfault.com/questions/388858/how-to-fix-file-name-too-long-error-in-apache2
The following error was ...
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You must have 5 reputation to participate on which site again?
The meta.SF FAQ states, in part:
You must have at least 5 reputation on the main website to participate on Server Fault.
Should it not say that you must have 5 reputation on Server Fault to ...
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Uh, what's going on with the captcha?
Yes, I am a human being, but I don't see a captcha nor a field to enter whatever is expected here...
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Inconsistent rep behaviour
I recall seeing a mention a little while back about changes to the SE sites that mean rep adjustments are made "on the fly" and recalcs are no longer necessary. I think it's broken, at least on SF. I ...
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What's going on with syntax highlighting?
The syntax highlighting in this question seems to have matched a slash as being the start of a comment (or maybe a Perl-style regex) and kept that colour until it encountered another slash.
Is it not ...
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Posting questions on ServerFault seems not to work in Opera
I've just tried asking a question (well, I've just tried asking it again, as the first attempt didn't seem to "take", I probably pressed the [Post Your Question] button and closed the tab) and it ...
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What's wrong with this questions vote-to-close count? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can't vote again if previous vote has expired?
There is something odd with this question: It's definitely off-topic and should be closed, but when I try to vote it to ...
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ServerFault's error page has StackOverflow branding
This is what I just got as an error page on SF:
On the plus side, I've been on SF for more than a year and I'm almost sure that I've seen an error outside of scheduled maintenance. Nice! :-)
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Typo in flagging suggestions - "not a real question"
From the flagging summary:
It's difficult to tell what is being asked here. This question is ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overy broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its ...
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Weren't lmgtfy.com links blocked?
https://serverfault.com/questions/321559/how-to-install-a-vnc-server-on-ubuntu/321561#321561
In case of modify or delete, the full text of the answer is as follows:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=vnc+ubuntu+...
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Where's the upvote for primary
Where are the upvote buttons for primary ? Is this a bug or do we need to wait ?
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Synonymizer badge not showing in my profile
I suggested a tag synonym several days ago which was accepted, but I haven't yet been awarded the Synonymizer badge. When will this badge appear in my profile? I thought it would have appeared by now.
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Can something be done about the greek captcha's? [closed]
I've again encountered one of these:
Now I know the Greek Economy is dwindling and I appreciate StackExchange trying to help them out by OCR'ing there scripts, but for our poor Western Keyboards, ...
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