874406 - Search feature on "addons-dev.allizom.org" fails randomly every few searches

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 874458

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[mario garbi]

Attachment: AMO screenshot

We noticed this while running our automated remote tests and managed to reproduce it manually. It would seem that once in a few searches we get an error message from dev.allizom.org as seen in the screenshots attached.

This happens both with the webpage and the AMO search field on Linux Ubuntu 12.04, Mac 10.6.8 and Win8 x32 with Firefox Nightly, Aurora and Release as far as I've checked.

Steps to reproduce manually:
1. Open about:config

2. Replace the values for the "extensions.getAddons.*" (all preferences that have an url as value and start with that) from "addons.mozilla.org" and "services.addons.mozilla.org" to "addons-dev.allizom.org"

3. Open Addons Manager (CTRL-SHIFT-A)
OR
   Open "https://addons-dev.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/"

4. Search for "rss"



Expected results:
-A couple of results

Actual results:
-After waiting for a while we get the message "Could not find any matching addons" as seen in the screenshot. (AMO)
-"Search unavailable" error message. (Webpage)

Comment 1

[mario garbi]

Attachment: Screenshot of addons-dev.allizom.org

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

That issue causes all of our Mozmill tests for remote content to fail since a couple of days. 

Will, can we please get this fixed ASAP? We would appreciate that.

Comment 3

[Rob Hudson [:robhudson]]

Our elasticsearch backend is having problems opening new files. Forward duping to the real issue.