The +filebug dupe finder doesn't cope well with long or complex bug titles
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
It is impossible to create a bug report in launchpad which in the subject would contain the following string of characters:
/usr/lib/
Anytime I try to do it (website: https:/
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Our edge server has a lower timeout threshold than launchpad.net, so we can catch those before they hit a wider audience. As a member of the Launchpad Beta Testers team, you're more likely to experience them. If this is blocking your work, you can disable redirection.
Disable redirection for 2 hours
Sorry, something just went wrong in Launchpad.
We’ve recorded what happened, and we’ll fix it as soon as possible. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Trying again in a couple of minutes might work.
(Error ID: OOPS-1304E1446)
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This problem was encountered while trying to create Bug 405335. The workaround is not to write this magic word into the description of the bug, and correct this on the next screen.
It seems dupefinder is not enjoying the title/description. I tried to file a bug with summary "/usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-sun-1. 6.0.06/ bin/javaws" and I'm getting consistently timeout oopses like OOPS-1306EC374.