[chef] Search not working on new OSS chef server install

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Hello,

Just ran an install of chef server on ubuntu 12.10, things are generaly
working, but the search is not returning results in some cases when searching
from webui or knife.

I have 2 nodes configured:

WIN-RJS5G5R51NK.mydomain.co.uk (Windows2008)
lo-deploy-alpha (this is the client on chef-server ubuntu 12.10)

Running
knife search node name:lo-deploy-alpha

returns:
1 items found

... details of node

Running 
knife search node name:WIN-RJS5G5R51NK.mydomain.co.uk
returns 0 items found

Running
knife node list
returns:
  WIN-RJS5G5R51NK.mydomain.co.uk
  lo-deploy-alpha

So the node is definitely there.

I checked the running processes on the server, and they all seem to be running
(based on
http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Installing+Chef+Server+on+Debian+or+Ubuntu+using+Packages#InstallingChefServeronDebianorUbuntuusingPackages-VerifyThatAllComponentsareRunning)

Can someone point me in the right direction to look at what could be causing
this? just getting started with chef.

I am also getting this problem:
http://tickets.opscode.com/browse/KNIFE-1
Which could be related.