Exporting observation gives failure message, even though export works

[mikkohei13]

Exporting observations at https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export alerts about an error, even though the download eventually works as expected.

Platform: Web

Browser: Chrome 80

URLs: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export

Description of problem:

• Go to https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/export
• As a filter set quality_grade=any&identifications=any&user_id=ANYUSERNAME
• (Preview works ok)
• Select all fields
• Click “Create export”
  → Browser alerts that something went wrong
  → API at https://www.inaturalist.org/flow_tasks/81022/run.json responds with {"error":"Internal Server Error"}
• But after reloading the page, the file is available to download

[pisum]

i can’t reproduce this right now. is this still happening for you? (if not, i’m thinking the bug report should probably be closed until this can be reproduced consistently, since it would unlikely be something that could be resolved with any reasonable effort.)

i think i’ve seen this kind of thing happen every once in a while, seemingly randomly, but usually it just seems like gremlins. try the next day, and it’s fine.

[mikkohei13]

Cannot reproduce anymore.