diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/browser/searchResultsView.ts b/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/browser/searchResultsView.ts
index 2a30a01449e5476ce6fa07646a01b09074d129a3..7ab243e91ae020c58b85be49b1240a54cb069056 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/browser/searchResultsView.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/browser/searchResultsView.ts
@@ -424,7 +424,7 @@ export class SearchTreeController extends WorkbenchTreeController {
 			getActions: () => {
 				const actions: IAction[] = [];
 				fillInContextMenuActions(this.contextMenu, { shouldForwardArgs: true }, actions, this.contextMenuService);
-				return Promise.resolve(actions);
+				return actions;
 			},
 
 			getActionsContext: () => element
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/fileSearchManager.ts b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/fileSearchManager.ts
index 1342bbc34f171f1bf77d0901287494d081b98a69..2713a180fb301e9f7c56b408b4a31ea742b7ad94 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/fileSearchManager.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/fileSearchManager.ts
@@ -100,12 +100,8 @@ class FileSearchEngine {
 					limitHit: this.isLimitHit,
 					stats: stats[0] || undefined // Only looking at single-folder workspace stats...
 				});
-			}, (errs: Error[]) => {
-				const errMsg = errs
-					.map(err => toErrorMessage(err))
-					.filter(msg => !!msg)[0];
-
-				reject(new Error(errMsg));
+			}, (err: Error) => {
+				reject(new Error(toErrorMessage(err)));
 			});
 		});
 	}
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/searchService.ts b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/searchService.ts
index 68fc3311976c3581b3d766b99f8e3d584f6cf076..207fed068ad717f15cee90070ce2cdc0026e6218 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/searchService.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/searchService.ts
@@ -157,13 +157,6 @@ export class SearchService extends Disposable implements ISearchService {
 					stats: completes[0].stats,
 					results: arrays.flatten(completes.map(c => c.results))
 				};
-			}, errs => {
-				if (!Array.isArray(errs)) {
-					errs = [errs];
-				}
-
-				errs = errs.filter(e => !!e);
-				return Promise.wrapError(errs[0]);
 			});
 
 		return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
@@ -244,13 +237,10 @@ export class SearchService extends Disposable implements ISearchService {
 				this.sendTelemetry(query, endToEndTime, complete);
 			});
 			return completes;
-		}, errs => {
+		}, err => {
 			const endToEndTime = e2eSW.elapsed();
 			this.logService.trace(`SearchService#search: ${endToEndTime}ms`);
-			errs = errs
-				.filter(e => !!e);
-
-			const searchError = deserializeSearchError(errs[0] && errs[0].message);
+			const searchError = deserializeSearchError(err.message);
 			this.sendTelemetry(query, endToEndTime, null, searchError);
 
 			throw searchError;