It appears that there’s some kind of mime type issue where either the input/output is munged because SUSE incorrectly identifies it. It results in a “loading dashboard…” showing up for a long time and after that.

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 xsl

Also 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.