There are broken images on election page of any SE site, e.g. on SO:
As suggested by PeterJ in comment opening the flair image leads to HTTP 500 error. Screenshot from the Chrome browser:
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1Works here, Windows 10, Firefox 65.0– JenayahFeb 13, 2019 at 12:28
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2@Jenayah hmm ... looks fine with VPN too. Seems the Russian roskomnadzor issue– αλεχολυτFeb 13, 2019 at 12:30
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@αλεχολυτ, seem roskomnadzor not like αλεχολυτ :-D all works– GrundyFeb 13, 2019 at 12:32
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1Looks like an HTTP error 500 retrieving the flair icons: stackoverflow.com/users/flair/34397.png– PeterJFeb 13, 2019 at 12:36
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@PeterJ That link loads absolutely fine for me. Could be a geography-specific issue.– Sonic the Anonymous HedgehogFeb 13, 2019 at 12:47
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A similar issue with flair was pointed out in The Tavern yesterday. Personally, I can't reproduce either, but unless rene can see flairs now, it excludes geography-specific as rene and I are from the same small country.– Tinkeringbell ModFeb 13, 2019 at 12:49
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No repro here, maybe related to Teams? Try to copy and paste URL of a broken image if it's still broken.– Shadow The GPT WizardFeb 13, 2019 at 12:50
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1MSO report: meta.stackoverflow.com/q/380133/578411– reneFeb 13, 2019 at 13:04
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2@Tinkeringbell using the different ISP also solve the issue. For instance, works on my phone via mobile network, and broken for my office ISP.– αλεχολυτFeb 13, 2019 at 13:05
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We had a web server that was misbehaving in ways that really don't make any sense, and as part of a debug of things, a reboot magically fixed it. System.Drawing (being swapped soon) was saving 0 byte files only on this box (ny-web05). This meant all users had a 1 in 9 chance of hitting the issue, for all flair from the box. Unfortunately System.Drawing throws an OutOfMemory exception for everything and is damn near useless in terms of debugging anything after-the-fact.
Since we're going to replace all this code for the .NET Core port here, I'm not advising we spend any more time digging into it...it's just not a good use of resources.
TL;DR: I know what it was doing, but not why it was doing it. And the symptoms are no longer there to debug. So we'll call this a fluke.
answered Feb 13, 2019 at 14:19
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3You happily ignored the warning in the remarks Classes within the System.Drawing namespace are not supported for use within a Windows or ASP.NET service. Attempting to use these classes from within one of these application types may produce unexpected problems, such as diminished service performance and run-time exceptions. ;) thanks for the fix, you rock!– reneFeb 13, 2019 at 14:23
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Such a great and complex system and a simple reboot fixes all the problems... ;)– MEEFeb 13, 2019 at 15:14
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For all flair themes (Default, Clean, Dark, Hotdog) images are not displayed. The console is showing an error as
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (). Is it possible that this is the cause for this? Jun 24, 2021 at 1:33