# Error in tracking backlinks to headlines

**URL:** <https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/error-in-tracking-backlinks-to-headlines/1267>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [February 10, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/error-in-tracking-backlinks-to-headlines/1267 "2021-02-10T02:38:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![arozbiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@arozbiz](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/arozbiz)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2021, 2:38am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/error-in-tracking-backlinks-to-headlines/1267/1 "2021-02-10T02:38:09Z")

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A picture may describe the problem most clearly:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/orgroam/original/1X/6bbf597dc26b4153e1a52528464fc348798b82f2.png)

`Headline` is linked by test8 and test9, but the backlinks buffer for test7 seems all screwed up. I’ve cleared my roam-db and rebuild it but the problem remains.

I’ve also tried this with regular links, but the problem remains:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/orgroam/original/1X/31f63d123e2d11f014101baadad59b81e35cc0bc.png)

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**Author:** ![arozbiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@arozbiz](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/arozbiz)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/error-in-tracking-backlinks-to-headlines/1267/2 "2021-02-13T22:25:15Z")

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Turns out the problem was because of another package, `page-break-lines-mode`. Once I removed that any any package that had it as a dependency (which unfortunately included the very useful `dashboard` package), the backlinks buffer went back to displaying results correctly.

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**Author:** ![jethro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5a626/32.png) [@jethro](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/jethro)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 6:23am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/error-in-tracking-backlinks-to-headlines/1267/3 "2021-02-15T06:23:58Z")

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The new backlinks buffer in v2 won’t suffer from this sort of breakage.

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**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 7:12am UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/error-in-tracking-backlinks-to-headlines/1267/4 "2021-02-15T07:12:25Z")

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Just repeating a suggestion I made in the Slack thread: customizing variable `page-break-lines-modes`. Try removing `outline-mode` from it, while keeping `global-page-break-lines-mode`. This should stop page break lines from influencing Org Mode (and other derived modes of Outline Mode) – my casual testing worked, but I don’t have `dashboard-mode`, so you might need to adjust a bit more.

I’d relaunch Emacs just in case.

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**Author:** ![arozbiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@arozbiz](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/arozbiz)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/error-in-tracking-backlinks-to-headlines/1267/5 "2021-02-16T13:57:56Z")

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Didn’t work for me, but I’m happy to just wait until v2 and then reenable dashboard then.