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Richie_unstable

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Message 52027 - Posted: 16 Jul 2025, 16:53:45 UTC

I tried to create a new topic (for VirtualBox 7.1.12 ).

Preview showed the title and text without problems. I clicked OK.
This time the title came out fine. The text part was completely missing.
Occasionally in the past I have encountered a title coming out broken even though it has shown to be okay in the preview. Then I've just edited the title until it has worked.

New with this attempt to create a post today was an anomaly that after clicking OK and missing the text part completely... there wasn't then a possibility to edit the post at all. A link or button to edit was missing.

Then I tried adding just the missing text part by posting a second message into the topic. Preview was OK again. I clicked "Post reply".
I got an error saying : "Can't create post. Failed to add post to DB."

So... just kindly bringing this observation into attention. Maybe some small hickups somewhere deep in the data sentinel.
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Message 52029 - Posted: 16 Jul 2025, 17:42:14 UTC - in response to Message 52027.  
Last modified: 16 Jul 2025, 18:13:48 UTC

"Can't create post. Failed to add post to DB."
can be caused by invalid characters in the body. An emoticon in a quote is one example. In this case it seems to be a problem with the github tags. By leaving out the tags I was able to post to the thread most of what I believe you were trying to post. I couldn't get it to take with the tags.
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Message 52031 - Posted: 16 Jul 2025, 18:42:33 UTC

Okay, good to see the reason. Thanks for investigating and filling in the body text !
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