582199 - MDC fulltext search broken (fails on any search words, not working)

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Wiki pages, defect)

Description

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

STR

1 https://developer.mozilla.org
2 type simple search term (e.g. "alert", without quotation marks) into search box (upper-right corner)

Actual

- this search is executed:
https://developer.mozilla.org/Special:Search?search=alert&type=fulltext&go=Search
- no results, error message  "Your search query type contains characters which need to be escaped. See this FAQ for more information."
- which is nonsense, as there are no special characters in the word "alert"

Expected

- show results as you did until yesterday:
results page with linkified titles like (e.g. for the search term "type")
type in en/XUL/Property
type in en/XPCOM Interface Reference/nsISupportsPrimitive

This used to work perfectly and stopped working today.

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I can confirm this. What the...

Comment 2

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Were there any changes to Dekiwiki? It supposedly incorporates Lucene, so I assume some change somewhere has triggered this.

If the search index itself is broken for some reason, recreating/reindexing might help. (Keep in mind though I know nothing about Lucene).

Do we have support with Mindtouch? If so, ask them for advice, please.

Comment 3

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

We have made no changes to the Deki install. I'll start a rebuild of the search index; it might be borked.

Comment 4

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

How long should the index rebuild take?  It's been 3 days and searching still isn't working.

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Would be great if we can fix this bug as soon as possible. Having no search results available makes it nearly impossible to use our documentation. Personally I'm blocked because I can't find the information I need.

Comment 6

[Michael Kraft [:morac]]

It would be nice if this could be fixed, but until it is, I'd recommend using Google's site search as a work around.  Simple use the search term "site:developer.mozilla.org" plus the search text.

Comment 7

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Apologize for being a me too on this one, but is there any update?

Comment 8

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I've seen more complaints about this on IRC now.

Why has search on DevMo been broken for over a week, and who needs to own this to get it fixed?

Comment 9

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

This is in work. Something is going wrong with the lucene indexer and IT has not been able to identify the problem. MindTouch is investigating; we have a ticket open with them.

Comment 10

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Ah, thanks for adding the 582740 dep. Carry on!

Comment 11

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

Verified FIXED: https://developer.mozilla.org/Special:Search?search=AMO+API&type=fulltext&go=Search

Comment 12

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to comment #11)
> Verified FIXED

Thank you!