[pydotorg-www] wiki linkto: search term is broken

[anatoly techtonik]

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Radomir Dopieralski
<sheep at sheep.art.pl> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:04 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Radomir Dopieralski <sheep at sheep.art.pl> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:14 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 3:09 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Radomir,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for looking into this, but it doesn't seem the search is
>>>>> completely fixed. For example, searching for "Presentation" doesn't
>>>>> get http://wiki.python.org/moin/PresentationSoftware in results.
>>>>
>>>> Any news on that?
>>>
>>> No, I didn't find out what is wrong so far.
>>> I still have a couple of things to check.
>>
>> Thanks for the heads up. Upgrading to 1.9.4 (I use
>> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonWikiChanges for guessing current
>> version info) can hopefully make the task easier. From the
>> http://hg.moinmo.in/moin/1.9/file/56eaf32027f4/docs/CHANGES :
>>
>>   * Use logging.traceback to get more information if a indexing filter crashes.
>>
>> There is also mention of a workaround against some memory leak in indexer.
>
> Yes, I am quite aware about MoinMoin releases, thank you very much.
>
> The search is now fixed, I have given up and just rebuild the Xapian index.
> Unfortunately I didn't manage to find out how and why it got corrupted
> -- it must have happened too long ago to leave a trace in the logs.
>
> I will keep my eyes peeled to try and catch the reason if it ever happens again.

Thanks. Now it works as expected. I wonder if this index has any
self-diagnostic harness, because IIRC bugs.python.org recently experienced the
same problem.
--
anatoly t.