Last modified: 2013-01-01 11:52:58 UTC
We're having severe problems with the search backend so we've noticed that, even when failing completely and consequently returning 0 results, search fails silently. It should tell the user that it failed and to try again in a dozen of seconds; and if possible also log it somewhere because debugging this is making one feel an haruspex.
Related to https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6090 and https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35691
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 43544 ***
Note: This is NOT technically "blocking" bugs 35691, 42423 as it wouldn't fix the underlying problem.