Questions tagged [bug]
Indicates you've found an erroneous or unexpected behaviour in the system that needs to be fixed.
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Login with OpenID: form is hidden
On the ServerFault login page, the OpenID and other parts of the form are hidden. Only Google, FB and Email/passwd are shown.
I hacked page's DOM with Chrome Developer Tools, got the fields to ...
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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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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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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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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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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...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Downgrading of Accepted Answers allows answer to go negative!
Since an answer is accepted, I should think that this would STOP any sort of downgrading effort. However it does not. In fact, an accepted answer can continue to go very negative.
I suggest that ...
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Are usernames not unique (aka: how many Iains)?
https://serverfault.com/users/9517/iain
https://serverfault.com/users/71060/iain
Am I missing something? I certainly took a sharp intake of breath at a question posed by the newer Iain, then ...
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Search for 'ipxe' (PXE bootloader) yields results for 'ipx' (A newtork protocol)
I ran a search for ipxe (which is a PXE bootloader), and the results include things like 'ipx', which is something very different.
Can this get fixed so that a search for ipxe & ipx each return ...
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New email settings dialog broken in IE8
I don't understand the new email settings dialog:
Very confused whether that sends me emails every three hours (as per the drop down) or not at all (as per the checkbox). I'm unable to uncheck the ...
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"Disciplined" badge remained after undeleting relevant question
Today I deleted a post of mine with 3 points and undeleted it later. There is this badge called Disciplined (Delete own post with score of 3 or higher), it was awarded and it remained even after ...
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Why am I false?
Getting this error around 9:30AM (CST):
when visiting the Questions/newest tab.
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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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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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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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... yet another issue
Occasionally when posting a comment I find that the @username that I generally put at the start gets dropped when I save it. This is normally correctable by editing and re-saving the comment. Somewhat ...
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Bug with number of close votes on summary page
The Most Close Votes tab in the tools page on serverfault (and maybe on other sites, can't get into the tools page on other sites) does not seem to be showing the correct values.
If you look at it ...
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What does this error on account association failure mean?
"We found differing IP addresses between sites for this association request - please return to Server Fault and try again."
I get this when trying to associate a newly created serverfault account ...
Brian Schroth
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Questions cannot be duplicates of themselves
This has happened to me a few times. I am looking at the review queue and see a question asked 2 hours ago, which I am certain I have seen a few days ago. I then open a new tab in my browser find the ...
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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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Recent reputation calculation bug
Not a big deal, it just displays wrong from time to time as seen in the picture:
It should be 59, but shows 58.
Update:
Perhaps this is my mistake, looking back now I see there was another downvote ...
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"Announcer" badge without having posted a link?
You have earned the "Announcer" badge (Share a link to a post later visited by 25 unique IP addresses) for Endpoint for Cloud Function returns 403 Forbidden.
It opens at the answer, with my ...
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Error message loading www.serverfault.com
I just typed http://www.serverfault.com to my browser, and it shows an ASP error page. Is that correct behavior?
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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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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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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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Moderator elections bug
I'm getting a banner telling me to cast my last vote on the moderator elections but I've already cast three votes. I've refreshed the page but still get the message. I've also verified that my 1st, ...
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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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Why my question & it's history was deleted?
Recently I request help regarding a problem I'm having with SQL Server instances in a Hyper-V VM. For my surprise, the question was tagged as "off-topic" by a moderator (Tom Tom or Tom O'Connor, I don'...
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Where are the "belongs on..." closing options?!?
I was trying to close this question as belonging on superuser.com, but I don't see anymore the "belongs on..." options when clicking the "close" button.
What happened to them?
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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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How did I get three Marshal badges?
Today when I logged on Server Fault there were two messages for me, both with the exact same wording:
You've earned the "Marshal" badge (Raise 500 helpful flags).
And I noticed that the count of ...
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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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Some questions are highlighted for a not-logged-in user, is that by design?
I'm not (yet) an SF user, so I got here out of curiosity after we migrated a question from SO to SF. I was surprised to see that, on the main page, some questions were highlighted as if I had any "...
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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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Bug: Unanswered My Tags empty after clicking on a couple tags
I was viewing Serverfault Unanswered Questions with My Tags, and clicked one of the tags in the Unasnwered tags list, on the right, I believe Apache. This took me to the Questions section, showing ...
Willfulwizard
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Review problem?
I press review and see 3 items needing reviewing: 2 close votes, and 1 new post.
When I try to enter either one, I get the message There are no items for you to review.
What is the problem?
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Tags can't be linked in Tag Wiki exerpt
If I use [tag:debian] almost anywhere on the site I get something like this: debian
This, however does not work in the excerpt text of a Tag Wiki. See an example here: debian-squeeze.
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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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"Accept Button" does not work all the time
I am not sure what causes this issue, but I have been able to recreate a workaround to this problem. Sometimes the accept button simply does not register that I have clicked it. The only way that I ...
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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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The case of the vanishing tag
I just noticed an old post to which I added the .subjective tag. That tag is no longer there and the edit history shows no changes made since, so whatever happened to the tag? Might this be a bug?
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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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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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The Meta help pages may contain some copy/paste typos
My apologies if this is off the mark or I am missing something obvious. I visited the Meta Help Center and it looks like Stack Overflow cross-pollinated into the Server Fault pages (some text omitted ...
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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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Weird counting of "consecutive" visits. Bug?
Right now, I see in my profile (from main, not meta):
visited 149 days, 4 consecutive
But yesterday, I saw... 17 consecutive (not 100% sure about the 7, but certain about being in the teens). About ...
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Bold + italic Markdown formatting breaks when used on underscored text
While responding to a question on ServerFault I noticed that there seems to be a bug in the display code.
Using Bold (**) and Italic (*) at the same time shows up correctly as bolded italic text in ...
TrueDuality