[Freedombox-discuss] Searx stopped working: Error! search error

[Joseph Nuthalapati]

Hi Augustine,

The Searx bug you encountered is already filed in Debian and a patch is available. 

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976322

A new release of the Debian package must be made.
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On 16 December 2020 8:25:15 AM IST, "A. F. Cano" <afc54 at comcast.net> wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 08:00:36PM -0500, James Valleroy via
>Freedombox-discuss wrote:
>> On 12/14/20 11:02 PM, A. F. Cano wrote:
>> \> Evan after a reboot searx comes back immediately with an "i" in a
>circle
>> > and "Error! search error". as soon as I hit enter or click on the
>> > magnifying glass.  I didn't see anything about searx in the release
>> > notes for version 20.20, so I wonder if this is related to the
>> > not-upgraded python3-django as seen above.
>> > 
>> > Any hints, anyone?
>> 
>> I assume you are running testing/bullseye, correct?
>
>Yes.
>
>> You could try to update the search engines list for searx, by running
>the following command as root:
>> # /usr/share/plinth/actions/searx setup
>
>Didn't fix it.  No error returned, no output from that command at all.
>Prompt just came back after a few seconds.
>
>Tried searx from konqueror and firefox.  Same result.
>
>Incidentally, immediately after the error appears the "Search for..."
>text field is cleared.
>
>> This was handled for users running testing/bullseye before, in
>> FreedomBox 20.3 [1]. But if you were running stable/buster then,
>> and later did a dist-upgrade to testing/bullseye, then the list
>
>No.  This was always a testing/bullseye FreedomBox, on an apu1d4.
>
>> of search engines needs to be updated again. I recently found this
>> and am working on an implementation for the automatic dist upgrade
>> support in FreedomBox [2].
>> 
>> [1]
>https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/-/merge_requests/1722
>> [2]
>https://salsa.debian.org/freedombox-team/freedombox/-/merge_requests/1966
>> 
>> --
>> James
>
>Maybe this is related to the occasional failures (no results found) I
>have seen before.  In those cases, hitting <RETURN> again and again
>eventually brings up the results page.  Maybe now it generates a
>consistent error.  Could this be?
>
>Anysay, thanks for replying.  Any other suggestions?
>
>Augustine
>
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