Customer reportsthat thet are running a search via the GUI. After displaying the results, they are seeing problems with the field list.
Search reports 114 interesting fields which display OK
When they select "View all 295 fields" the error "No fields to display for this search." is displayed
They have tried changing mode option via the "bunny" button, but problem still exists.
Looking at web_service.log, an error in the format is seen
FieldPicker:60 - Could not load summary PCDATA invalid Char value
Splunk are investigating a possible issue in Splunk 5.0 with parsing some unicode characters (or corrupt binary characters which may need escaping) (SPL-58178)
Here's to hoping this is fixed in 6?
fixed in latest version 5.0.5 (or 5.0.4.1 :-))
This is also problem in our newly updated 5.0.3 instance. Any update from support?
[version 5.0.1]
For us the issue was with embedded commas in a CSV LOOKUP Table
e.g.
--
Lookup,ReturnedValue
123,Hello World
456,"Hello Boston, London, and Toronto"
--
Remove the embedded commas and your good
e.g.
--
Lookup,ReturnedValue
123,Hello World
456,Hello Boston and London and Toronto
--
.. issue is resolved
Looks there is an issue with embedded commas (or the method for having them in lookup tables in Splunk is not the same as the CSV standard?)
hth
-tom
same issue here. 5.0.1, opened case.
Looking at web_service.log, an error in the format is seen
FieldPicker:60 - Could not load summary PCDATA invalid Char value
Splunk are investigating a possible issue in Splunk 5.0 with parsing some unicode characters (or corrupt binary characters which may need escaping) (SPL-58178)
Was any fix provided for this?