I am getting this as well. I killed a dragon at level 22 and absorbed its soul. Then I located and Dragon Shrine were the words of power are found, and they where not activating. So I was like that's odd, maybe I have to kill the dragon first. Killed the dragon and Kosrith.... still no thu'um word, I turn around and notice that the dragon has not disintegrated and I have not received a soul. So I wonder around looking for another dragon. Find the dragon kill it and again does not dissolve and I do not receive a soul. This a very BASIC and KEY component of the game. If this is broken I can't imagine what other sort of triggering glitches are present in this game.

yea, sometimes i also dont get a soul, havent had problems with Tu'um walls tho

probaly the dragons souls not triggering has to do with which kind of dragon youve killed

I killed a "Dragon" and a "Blood Dragon" I don't see anything mentioned by Bethesda about certain dragons not giving souls anymore? Do you have a link that indicates that as a real thing?

no, what i meant was that, after lvl 20 you will get new types of dragons maybe one of those is bugged.

I've had a problem with the Thu'Um wall in Hag's End. No word highlighted in it, walking up to it doesn't allow you to learn anything.

I agree, there's no excuse for broken basics of the game like that.

I have not tried a second word of power yet since i didnt have time to find another, i will check at Hag's End tomorrow when I get home from work to see if its ALL walls and or just this one.

So I just got the bug as well.

I have reloaded and I'm sure I'm the one giving the dragon the final blow. The dragon is fully disentigrating and on the screen the message "DRAGON SOUL ABSORBED" appears.
Then I open my menu and go to shouts, and when I try to unlock that "Ice Form" shout, a pop-up message says: "Dragon souls are required to unlock shouts".

This is really frustrating! Second time this happens.

The dragon is at the Shearpoint wall btw, and its name is simply "Dragon".

It does not fix itself, I have over 10 dragon souls and over four words of power that will not activate even though it's telling me I have absorbed the soul.

I got the same problem folks, 2 dragons in a row. Maybe I am killing them too fast? I'm usually done with them in 3 flurries of my dual wielded weapons. Both times it was a blood dragon.

Third in a row, a frost draogn this time, all at shrines I cleared before. Maybe that's the problem?

fourth dragon, named "dragon" at a location I hadn't visited before, DID grant a soul. Location related? Another thing I did differently is that I didn't have my horse with me. It's a special horse, received during a faction's questline.... I dare not say more for spoilers..

The problem I've had with shouts is that they won't go when I activate them. He will say the words but the shout affect won't happen. This also triggers the recharge time so I get double fisted..

Wrong thread?

I got 2 souls but it is not letting me select a word to assign it to. I get a response that it requires dragon,souls. Does it auto asign? Do I need to catch up from the words I got at the throat of the world?

I first learned the "fire breath" shout, and killed both a fire and frost breathing dragon last night. Both of them had the soul capture animation and on screen prompt that I had captured the soul, yet I am unable to unlock the "fire breath" shout.

this happened to me too. I have two words to unlock and 5 souls. no problems learning the words and no problems absorbing the souls. this needs fixing.

Just read some more on other threads, and I will post more when I try this later, but other threads said to make sure you are pressing the actual "unlock" button (x on the 360 i believe) rather than hitting a to select the shout which I was doing. So just try and see, I will too. post results please.

I killed, reloaded and killed 3 more times, my first Blood Dragon around level 20. It was a Winterhold. I was able to loot the body, but no soul and no skeleton. The dead animation was just a bunch of floating blots of blood. After completing the 3rd part of the mage quests, and returning to the College, I found a Blood Dragon stuck in the entrance. That was 12 levels and 2 in-game weeks ago. It's still there, in the courtyard. It clips in and out of the ground, everytime the cell loads. It's a full body animation, no skeleton and no soul.

If you were getting the "you need a soul to unlock" type message do as i did because it works make sure you hit the unlock button. x is the button, as for the not absorbing the souls gamesas has got to fix that.

Okay so i'm lvl 30 now and i just encountered my first dragons with no soul rewards.Tried 3 nests so far "Dragon" , "Blood Dragon" , it doesn't matter, their body is not burning up and i absorb no souls.Does anyone know if this issue is known to bethesda,so that we can hope for a fix in the upcoming patch?

This is happening to me as well. Any fix for it? Reloading doesn't seem to work. This was at lvl 25, just after I killed by first Blood Dragon.

I've had issues absorbing souls from 4 different dragons now. Fortunately I have had no trouble reading words from walls, but the soul absorbtion thing is getting irritating to say the least.

Edit-

Seems the absorbtions issue has been handled in the patch, notes just released.