Kibana crashes after selecting a previous search in search bar (autosaved form)

[rodgermoore]

Ubuntu 14.04
Oracle Java 1.8.0_66
Elasticsearch 2.3.1
Kibana 4.5
Chromium browser

Kibana crashes and switches to "white theme" after selecting a previous created search in search bar (auto-saved form) in a saved Dashboard.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create visualizations like histograms and pie charts.
2. Create a saved search in the "Discover tab", a wildcard (greedy) search will do.
3. Place the visualizations and saved search on a new Dashboard. Choose "use Dark Theme" and save it.
4. Now open the Dashboard and search some text using the search bar. This search in the search bar will be auto saved for later.
5. Load the Dashboard by reloading the page or closing and re-opening your browser and Dashboard.
6. Enter some previously used text in the search bar. The search bar will auto-show previously used search "terms". Now select one using your mouse!
7. Boom! Kibana will crash and reload the screen showing the dashboard in white. You can check the "use Dark Theme" setting and as you can see it is still checked but the Dashboard is using the white theme.

After the above steps, when moving over to the Discover tab and moving back to the Dashboard you will notice the Dashboard is not recalled from memory (empty Dashboard screen). Normally it does remember the Dashboard while switching between tabs (Discover, Visualize, Dashboard).

[flossokay]

If it helps I was able to recreate this problem as well, but I'm on kibana 4.1

[rodgermoore]

Hi @epixa and @jbudz do you have time to look into this? We have quite some users running into this issue. I had to set history:limit 0 in the advanced Kibana settings to make sure users don't crash Kibana. Many thanks

[rodgermoore]

Bump

[jbudz]

I could reproduce, clicking on a saved typeahead item the first time after loading a page will cause a full refresh.