Ubuntu search page comes up in wrong language from time to time

[Marc Deslauriers]

I've seen it come up in spanish and checz, but now it's coming up in arabic with the right to left text.

Looks like a server side issue:

GET /14.10/Google/?sourceid=hp HTTP/1.1
Host: start.ubuntu.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: <redacted>
Connection: keep-alive
If-Modified-Since: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:57:55 GMT
If-None-Match: "13a1f2e-1775-4daa4aa62a19f"

HTTP/1.0 304 Not Modified
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 20:37:19 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Last-Modified: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:57:55 GMT
ETag: "13a1f2e-1775-4daa4aa62a19f"
Age: 138
X-Cache: HIT from nuno.canonical.com
X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from nuno.canonical.com:80
Via: 1.0 nuno.canonical.com:80 (squid/2.7.STABLE7)
Connection: keep-alive

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

I've also been seeing this problem intermittently over the past few months. I had previously seen Arabic like Marc; today the page came up in Turkish.

[Martin Albisetti (beuno)]

I filed the RT here when the bug came in: https://rt.admin.canonical.com/Ticket/Display.html?id=79309

I'll bump the priority.

[Ryan Finnie (fo0bar)]

This should now be fixed:

$ curl -v -o /dev/null -H 'Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' http://start.ubuntu.com/14.10/Google/?sourceid=hp
* Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Trying 91.189.90.40...
  0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0* Connected to start.ubuntu.com (91.189.90.40) port 80 (#0)
> GET /14.10/Google/?sourceid=hp HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.38.0
> Host: start.ubuntu.com
> Accept: */*
> Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
>
* HTTP 1.0, assume close after body
< HTTP/1.0 200 OK
< Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 20:58:01 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu)
< Content-Location: index.html.en
< Vary: negotiate,accept-language,Accept-Encoding
< TCN: choice
< Last-Modified: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 06:02:15 GMT
< ETag: "1775-4f8282c73a7c0"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 6005
< Content-Type: text/html
< Content-Language: en
< Age: 1331
< X-Cache: HIT from avocado.canonical.com
< X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from avocado.canonical.com:80
< Via: 1.1 avocado.canonical.com:80 (squid/2.7.STABLE7)
< Connection: close
<
{ [data not shown]
100 6005 100 6005 0 0 6259 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 6255
* Closing connection 0

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

I just hit this issue in a pristine Precise VM. It's definitely not fixed.

[Steve Langasek (vorlon)]

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 05:10:39PM -0000, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> I just hit this issue in a pristine Precise VM. It's definitely not
> fixed.

Confirmed, and the RT was also reopened with IS.