New this week: 267 problems
267 problems people report in public first appeared on Triremes in the week from 5 October 2026 to 11 October 2026. These are the 30 with the most public reports. Between them they have 387 public reports.
-
nixpkgs-update cannot authenticate to GitHub
28 public reports · first reported 10 October 2026 · last reported 11 October 2026
People running nixpkgs-update to update packages they maintain report that it cannot authenticate to GitHub. Pushes fail and the pull request never opens, even when the user has a valid token.
-
Certbot skips renewals inside the renewal window
25 public reports · first reported 31 August 2026 · last reported 16 September 2026
Users of Certbot, the free tool that obtains and renews Let's Encrypt TLS certificates, report that a certificate inside its renewal window was not renewed automatically. The site stayed exposed to expiry until someone ran the renewal by hand.
-
Certificate warnings during a server move with new hostname
23 public reports · first reported 29 August 2026 · last reported 30 August 2026
When a website moves to a new server under a different hostname, visitors can briefly see certificate warnings while DNS records are switched over. The posts come from people running small sites on Let's Encrypt, who found that the certificate, DNS settings, redirects, and CAA checks all had to line up at the same moment, and that stale or misconfigured nameservers and unused domains made the cutover harder.
-
certbot 5.8.0 crashes parsing Sectigo OCSP for ECDSA
19 public reports · first reported 9 September 2026 · last reported 16 September 2026
Since certbot 5.8.0, the certificate-checking command can crash with a ValueError when it reads OCSP responses from Sectigo for ECDSA certificates. The problem appears to be that Sectigo includes an empty parameters field in ECDSA signature algorithm identifiers, which the newer Python cryptography library rejects even though OpenSSL tolerates it.
-
KDE Linux root fills with btrfs snapshots and updates
17 public reports · first reported 7 October 2026 · last reported 8 October 2026
On KDE Linux, an atomic, image-based distribution that uses btrfs, the root volume can fill up with stored system snapshots and partially staged updates. When that happens the system will not boot and later updates fail.
-
ThinkPad on Fedora Kinoite won't sleep on battery
16 public reports · first reported 9 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
Owners of ThinkPad laptops running Fedora Kinoite, a KDE-based immutable Linux desktop, report that the machine stays awake when unplugged instead of suspending as expected. Users in a long community forum thread compared hardware such as Intel graphics setups, tried kernel power-state options, and could not tell whether the fault lay with the kernel driver, the desktop, or Fedora itself.
-
FlexUnits ignores preferred units outside its own module
16 public reports · first reported 28 September 2026 · last reported 1 October 2026
Users of the FlexUnits.jl Julia package report that automatic unit simplification and affine temperature units stop working when their preferred-unit set and constants live in a separate package or submodule. The same setup works when loaded as a local module, which makes the failure hard to diagnose.
-
Fedora 44 KDE freezes during dnf updates on NVMe
12 public reports · first reported 8 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
On a clean Fedora 44 KDE install, some users report that the system hangs or freezes partway through dnf updates, most often on NVMe drives. The reports describe the desktop becoming unresponsive, new applications refusing to open, and terminal commands such as reboot failing, forcing a hard reset.
-
Diagonal sums of tall Gram matrices exhaust memory
12 public reports · first reported 5 October 2026 · last reported 7 October 2026
Users of Julia's discussion forum report that computing the diagonal sums of a very large X times X transpose product fails with out-of-memory errors, because the full matrix is materialized before the sums are taken. Threads show people trying blocked and view-based workarounds, comparing timings against plain diag-and-sum code, and finding that indexing mistakes and small test matrices made early attempts misleading.
-
Let's Encrypt validation fails silently during outages
12 public reports · first reported 11 September 2026 · last reported 11 September 2026
During Let's Encrypt incidents, certificate requests fail with networking errors while performing secondary validation, and users running certbot or similar ACME clients are left guessing. Reports from community forums show people chasing local DNS and IPv6 settings when the real cause is a temporary problem on the certificate authority's side, and the failure messages do not say so.
-
Fedora 44 automatic updates announced but never installed
12 public reports · first reported 10 October 2026 · last reported 11 October 2026
On Fedora 44, some users find that automatic updates are announced and confirmed at shutdown, yet the updates never actually install, and nothing in the system makes it clear why. Reports on the Fedora discussion forum describe pending updates disappearing, conflicting behavior between the GNOME Software tool and the dnf command line, and users having to dig through journal logs and offline-update records to figure out what happened.
-
Running newer Gitea on stable NixOS needs fragile overrides
12 public reports · first reported 11 October 2026 · last reported 11 October 2026
People running a stable NixOS release who want a newer Gitea than the one packaged in it end up writing custom overlays, hand-rolled systemd units, and vendored-dependency patches. These hacks often break when the package changes, and there is no clean, supported way to pin a single unstable package into a stable configuration.
-
OpenRGB fails to detect newer RGB devices and GPUs
12 public reports · first reported 13 July 2021 · last reported 27 August 2025
Owners of recent RGB peripherals, graphics cards and other lighting hardware report that OpenRGB does not detect their devices, so they cannot control the lighting from one place. Reports cover new keyboards, mice, docks, cards and hub accessories from several brands, and many arrive as requests to add support for a specific model.
-
Reassigned closure variables slow Julia model factories
11 public reports · first reported 9 October 2026 · last reported 10 October 2026
Julia users building model factories with multiple dispatch report that the code runs several times slower than when a single definition is used. The cause appears to be that closure variables which get reassigned are wrapped in boxes, which adds indirection and hurts speed.
-
Grafana query variables skip the Refresh button
11 public reports · first reported 24 July 2026 · last reported 29 July 2026
In Grafana, query variables that are set to refresh only on dashboard load do not update when the dashboard's Refresh button is pressed, so displayed values stay stale until the whole page is reloaded. Users report this on community forums, where a common workaround is switching the variable's refresh setting to on time range change, which makes values update on reload or tab switch.
-
Login screen after sleep differs from boot login
11 public reports · first reported 6 October 2026 · last reported 8 October 2026
On KDE Plasma desktops, the login screen shown after waking from sleep does not match the one shown at boot, and the related settings do not line up either. Users on Fedora and Ultramarine who hit this report that the settings still show sddm as the login option, and that the lock screen options sit in a different place from the login options.
-
Users cannot find system prompts of specific AI products
11 public reports · first reported 25 June 2026 · last reported 10 October 2026
People who use or study AI products keep looking for the hidden instructions behind named tools such as Figma, Android Studio, Sekai and Claude Motion, and find nothing official to read. Some want to understand why a voice mode gives shorter answers, others want to research how a multi-model feature is set up, and some simply ask for the prompt of a recently launched product.
-
Claude Code plugins fail to load over hooks.json shape
11 public reports · first reported 26 February 2026 · last reported 14 May 2026
Several plugins in Anthropic's financial-services marketplace, including financial-analysis, equity-research, wealth-management and private-equity, ship their hooks/hooks.json file as an empty JSON array instead of an object. When users install them in Claude Code, the hook loader rejects the array with a schema validation error, the plugin shows as failed to load, and /doctor reports the problem.
-
Master pipeline failures pile up as untriaged CI issues
11 public reports · first reported 23 September 2026 · last reported 10 October 2026
GitLab's CNG build repository on the master branch keeps failing on the same jobs, including asset builds, the Gitaly service, and Nix-based image jobs. Each failed pipeline automatically opens a new tracking issue that asks someone to file follow-up issues, and nobody groups these reports or decides who should handle them.
-
URL cleaning breaks live chat, SAML and bank logins
11 public reports · first reported 10 December 2018 · last reported 7 November 2025
Users of the ClearURLs browser extension report that its link cleaning sometimes breaks sites they still need to use, such as live chat widgets, SAML single sign-on pages and online banking. The extension has no simple way to exempt one website while keeping it active elsewhere.
-
Hydra's bot blocking serves junk or rejects real users
10 public reports · first reported 1 October 2026 · last reported 4 October 2026
Hydra, the continuous integration server behind NixOS, uses bot-blocking tools that either return nonsense text meant to poison scrapers or turn away legitimate browsers and visitors with no explanation. Community members on the NixOS Discourse forum report confusion about why access fails, and some suggest a plain access-denied page would be clearer and less alarming.
-
React teams unsure where shared code and types belong
10 public reports · first reported 16 March 2022 · last reported 10 July 2024
React developers repeatedly ask where shared components, types, API wrappers, stores, and feature-specific files should live inside a project's src layout. The questions come up on a popular open-source React starter repository, where people working in React and React Native try to fit assets, styles, Sass mixins, GraphQL clients, and state stores into existing folder conventions and are unsure whether to add new folders or reuse generic ones like utils.
-
Nixpkgs PRs that pass CI wait months for review
10 public reports · first reported 4 October 2026 · last reported 12 October 2026
Pull requests to Nixpkgs, the Nix package collection, often pass continuous integration checks and then sit for months without a maintainer reviewing or merging them. Contributors on the NixOS Discourse forum respond by reposting the same links in the ready-for-review thread, sometimes noting that feedback was already addressed or that the work has been open since spring.
-
Legacy hosts block certbot for small business sites
10 public reports · first reported 1 September 2026 · last reported 2 September 2026
Some websites run on older shared hosting plans whose control panels accept only manually uploaded certificate files, so the standard certbot tool cannot install or renew a Let's Encrypt certificate for them. People in community forums describe this as confusing and time-consuming, especially those who are not technical and were told the certificate files would simply be forwarded to the host.
-
GitLab flake inputs blocked by Cloudflare HTTP 403
9 public reports · first reported 10 October 2026 · last reported 11 October 2026
Nix users who pull flake inputs with the gitlab: shorthand are seeing HTTP 403 responses from a Cloudflare challenge, so nix flake update fails on public repositories. Reports from the NixOS Discourse forum show the same error with curl against GitLab's API, while the same URL opens normally in a browser, which suggests bot protection is rejecting non-browser requests.
-
1Panel app store lacks many requested open-source apps
9 public reports · first reported 11 September 2024 · last reported 14 April 2026
Users of the 1Panel server management panel keep asking for popular open-source tools to be added to its built-in app store. Requests named projects such as wg-easy, Novu, Dragonfly, NATS, CodiMD, spug and ArchiveBox, and some asked for newer AI-related tools as well.
-
Live NixOS image missing /bin/sh after envfs change
9 public reports · first reported 7 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
People building NixOS live images report that the resulting system has no /bin/sh, so scripts and packages with /bin/sh shebangs fail at runtime. One reported cause is that environment.shell was disabled, and a related tool, envfs, normally supplies /bin/sh but never gets installed on the live image.
-
Grafana totalizers cannot reset daily after resampling
9 public reports · first reported 30 July 2026 · last reported 5 August 2026
Operators and engineers using Grafana with InfluxDB Flux or SQL data sources report that a cumulative flow totalizer will not reset each day once flow-rate readings are resampled or summed inside Grafana expressions. The datasource never sees the resampled series, so it cannot produce a daily resetting total.
-
Laptop Wi-Fi fails after battery swap or BIOS change
9 public reports · first reported 8 October 2026 · last reported 9 October 2026
Some laptop owners report that Wi-Fi stops working after they swap the battery or change BIOS settings. The connection fails with an activation error on Linux, and the home network sometimes disappears from the list entirely.
-
ASUS laptop USB-C ports stop powering devices after update
9 public reports · first reported 10 October 2026 · last reported 10 October 2026
Owners of ASUS laptops report that their USB-C ports stop supplying power to connected devices after a system update, while the standard USB port keeps working. In one Fedora Linux forum thread, a mouse worked in the BIOS setup through the regular port but not through the USB-C port, which suggests the fault sits below the operating system.
Compiled automatically from Triremes data; summaries are AI-assisted, written with the help of AI.