Splunk on SUSE with Firefox 3, forever loading…
Posted by in SysadminIf you’re using SLES or any other Suse variant you might be wondering why your Splunk installation is constantly in a loading loop unless you browse to it using Internet Explorer. After lots of hacking around, reboots and google searches I emailed the splunk team about my problem. At first they didn’t seem to understand my problem but they did suggest I take a look at this article in their troubleshooting documentation.
http://www.splunk.com/doc/latest/admin/UnableToGetAProperlyFormattedResponseFromTheServer
Your search is still running after 1 minute. Unless you have set a high maxresults:: value, check if the Splunk Server is up and responding
The fix is actually quite easy, I’ll just repost it here just in case the link I provided becomes bad later.
Unable to get a properly formatted response from the server
Users running Splunk on a SuSE 10.x server may receive the error message Unable to get a properly formatted response from the server; canceling the current search when executing any kind of search.
In order to resolve this issue edit /etc/mime.types. Delete (or comment out) these 2 lines:
text/x-xsl xsl
text/x-xslt xslt xslAlso change this line:
text/xml xml
to:
text/xml xml xsl
With these changes in place, restart Splunk and clear your browser cache.
Make sure to clear your cache, it’s actually quite easy! Just go to your firefox preferences underneath the “privacy” tag, there is a “clear now…” button.
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