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For the past 24 hours when trying to reply to my own thread: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1184800/both-template-and-student-vms-shut-down-after-abou
I get the error:
Please fix the following issues to continue:
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Thanks,
Doug
@Richard Hay Can you look into this?
Douglas - can you verify if this is still occurring on that particular question as of today? Also, have you been able to reply, comment on other content on Microsoft Q&A?
Update. Can I add comments?
I can add comments to this post. I'll try the original post.
I'm unable to add comments to my original post. Same error.
OK - thanks for confirming. Will pass it along to the team.
Douglas - follow-up question from the team - are you attempting to attach anything to your post, or use a code block, etc. or just plain text? If you are trying to attach something, can you try just a plain text comment on that original post? Thanks.
I am posting text, but it won't take it.
I tried posting same text here and couldn't either. I had to be quite careful in what got put into this text field or it would throw the error.
I've been trying to post this text:
http://www.its.ohio.edu/msqa/
That is a non-https URL so even though it looks like a link - it is not active because Q&A does not accept non-https links. Can you try with an https link and see if that gets accepted?
At this point just trying to see what is causing the error.
I'm not trying to post the link. I'm trying to post the text shown AT that link. It's text from -var-log-syslog from an Ubuntu 22.04 template VM.
I think I figured it out. I'm unable to post anything that has a "front slash" in it. Like the path I tried to put in the above post. I had to substitute - to make it work. This is unfortunate if a person would like to post a path to a file as the "front slashes" in the post will trip this error.
For some reason posting a full http link is OK (with slashes). Why?
Not sure but I will pass these latest updates to the team who is looking into it - thanks!
Doug - posting a follow up to confirm you may have been trying to enter a source path when you kept hitting this error. Thanks for verifying as we are researching a potential common aspect of some who are getting these errors.