[arch-dev-public] Search binary file bug

[Eric Bélanger]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Dusty Phillips <dusty at linux.ca> wrote:
> 2009/9/13 Dusty Phillips <dusty at linux.ca>:
>> 2009/9/13 Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>:
>>> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Forwarding this on because it's reproducible using "myadmin" (I tried).
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Sammie S. Taunton <diemuzi at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 12:29 PM
>>>> Subject: weird search bug
>>>> To: aaron at archlinux.org
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I can't explain it so maybe you'll have a random guess at it. But I'm
>>>> using the latest firefox version and I went to search for a package
>>>> (phpmyadmin) and it returns a downloadable mimetype of
>>>> application/octet-stream
>>>> However using IE, it works just fine. So just for giggles I tried
>>>> searching for myadmin and same thing. Every other package I'm
>>>> searching for works just fine lol. So I dunno haha
>>>>
>>>> ~ Sammie
>>>>
>>>
>>> I can also reproduce it when searching for other packages. This error
>>> only appears sometimes. There's a FR:
>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16134
>>
>> 'other packages' doesn't help me. specific search terms do. :-)
>
> Except... 'myadmin' works fine for me.
>
> Dusty
>

auctex, xerces-c-2 (deleted since then)

The BIN problem come and go.  When firefox tries to download a BIN, if
you click cancel and do the search again, it will work fine. If you
try again 5-6 time it will work fine.  I can't replicate that problem
reliably. wonder also had this problem.