I started IE and Special:Search worked there but was still failing for me in Firefox. After restarting Firefox search worked normally. I hope the search gnomes have found something else to do.
Pine On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Nikolas Everett <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm - its working for me. The first couple of times I tried it was slow > but it worked. I tried both search engine options (BetaFeature and > default) and a bunch of different search options. > > We don't have good logs for the default search and that error message looks > like it came from there. If it did and its gone now we'll have to chalk it > up to a temporary blip in the old search system that we don't really > understand very well. That's a painful thing to say, but the last time I > poked that system trying to fix it I took out enwiki's search for half an > hour while it warmed its caches. I try not to taunt it unless it is > seriously broken. Failing on all searches certainly counts so if it does > it again then please reply. > > The BetaFeature search log is only complaining about errors that I know > about and am fixing, literally right now. > > Nik > > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Nikolas Everett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > I'll have a look at it. > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Florian Schmidt < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> Is working for me. I have only opened your link in Google chrome and > >> searched for "Android" (search suggestions working, too) and click ok. > >> After this I see the result page. > >> > >> Can you try to delete cache and cookies? What browser you use? > >> > >> Kind regards > >> Florian > >> > >> Freundliche Grüße > >> Florian > >> > >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > >> Von: [email protected] [mailto: > >> [email protected]] Im Auftrag von Pine W > >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2014 18:26 > >> An: [email protected] > >> Betreff: [Wikitech-l] Special:Search returning errors on English > Wikipedia > >> > >> I am unable to search using any of the options on > >> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search > >> > >> This came to my attention when a user reported that they were unable to > >> search English Wikipedia's help files. It turns out that none of the > >> "advanced", "everything", "multimedia", or "content pages" search > functions > >> are working. > >> > >> All searches return the error "An error has occurred while searching: > The > >> search backend returned an error:" > >> > >> Pine > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Wikitech-l mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
