Display name bug?

[Steve]

A user changed her display name and then decided to change it back. SMF wouldn't let her, giving her an error message saying that the display name was already in use. I tried to do it for her and got the same result.

Is this intentional or a bug?

[Sir Osis of Liver]

Is the original display name still in the database?

[Steve]

I didn't look. Doug went in the database and fixed it for me.

But that's treating the symptom, not fixing the cause.

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Not enough information here, how long was it between the name changes? Had someone taken the old displayname in between? At least I haven't seen or heard of this happening unless the name actually was already reserved.

[shawnb61]

I cannot reproduce.

Can you reproduce the issue?  Did someone else have that same display name?  What was the fix?

My best guess is that the duplicate was not caught in a earlier version of SMF, and someone else had that particular name. 

[Steve]

The member that had the display name is the only one who ever had it. I have a small group so I can be assured of that. I don't know how long between changes but I can find out.

Hmmm ... I couldn't reproduce it trying it myself just now either. @Doug Heffernan was the one who changed it in the database so I don't know exactly what he changed.

Maybe a gremlin in her account? 

[Sesquipedalian]

Maybe a gremlin in her account? 

[Steve]

Yea, that guy. I guess this can be moved to bogus bugs.