trying to do searches online using websearch and medline option or any of the other search engines, no joy, returns 0.

[sn0m]

I am a doctor and heavily use jabref for referencing.
However since the last updates it has stopped working.
When i type search terms in websearch field, choosing medline, for example pain, i expect it to return lots of article. However jabref returns 0 articles....It does the same with all the other search engines. However when I search the medline intrephase, ie pubmed for term Pain, i get thousnds returns...therefore the search term is broken. pls look into it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: jabref 2.10+ds-5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-47.68-generic 4.4.24
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-47-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Nov 14 12:57:49 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-06-11 (155 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: jabref
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[gregor herrmann (gregoa)]

If I'm not mistaken, you reported the same issue with an older version of JabRef 1.5 years ago:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jabref/+bug/1449414

Is the solution that you came up with in the old bug report (open a database before searching) not working anymore?

Cheers,
gregor

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package jabref - 3.6+ds-1

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jabref (3.6+ds-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream version. Fixes the following bugs:
    - "New version and new web address" (Closes: #810725)
    - "interface opens, but no menus and no action" (Closes: #846918)
    - "arXiv.org: Search only works using the paper ID." (Closes: #627857)
    - "Unusable after 'missing comma between two fields'" (Closes: #727114)
    - "problems with openjdk-8, awt, and threads" (Closes: #814901)
    - "Jabref duplicated file ?" (Closes: #563649)
    - "jabref not performing online search" (LP: #1449414)
    - "trying to do searches online" (LP: #1641602)
    - "Jabref hangs after Java upgrade" (LP: #1520294)
    - "Jabref fails to open" (LP: #1570068)
  * Build system is now gradle-based and leverages gradle-debian-helper.
    Build-deps, debian/rules, wrapper script, and patches have been
    completely reworked.
  * Notable new patches:
    - Disable "Lookup DOI" feature, which was causing JabRef to hang.
    - Diff-highlighting during "Merge Entries" is disabled due to license
      issues that prevent the distribution of the java-diff-tools library.
  * Update debian/copyright for upstream license changes.
  * Drop lintian overrides (duplicate-word).
  * Update documentation (debian/README.Debian, debian/README.source,
    debian/jabref.1, debian/jabref.bug-presubj) to match new release and
    drop outdated bits.
  * Use debhelper compatibility level 10.

 -- tony mancill <email address hidden> Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:04:34 -0800