Splunk Search

No fields to display for this search in GUI

dshakespeare_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

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.

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dshakespeare_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Looking at web_service.log, an error in the format is seen

FieldPicker:60 - Could not load summary PCDATA invalid Char value , line , column .

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)

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jjensenyahoo
Explorer

Here's to hoping this is fixed in 6?

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the_wolverine
Champion

fixed in latest version 5.0.5 (or 5.0.4.1 :-))

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the_wolverine
Champion

This is also problem in our newly updated 5.0.3 instance. Any update from support?

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t9445
Path Finder

[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

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mayler
Path Finder

same issue here. 5.0.1, opened case.

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dshakespeare_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Looking at web_service.log, an error in the format is seen

FieldPicker:60 - Could not load summary PCDATA invalid Char value , line , column .

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)

the_wolverine
Champion

Was any fix provided for this?

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