It's possible that it is a time zone issue / session length issue. We
were having a problem on another (non-Drupal site) where the user would
be logged out immediately or in a very short time. It turned out that
their timezone settings were incorrect which caused the cookie to expire
immediately rather than after our one hour default session length.
Fixing the timezone worked as did increasing the default session length.
Regards,
Mark Noble
On 2/24/2010 5:29 AM, Tomáš Fülöpp (vacilando.org) wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for the quick comments. Quick replies:
* It may be a cookie problem, but only in ways I am not
understanding. It is not the case of blocked cookies in browser.
After all, many other Drupal sites, same version, work.
* User table record 0 (anon) is intact, so is record 1 (admin).
* Setting cookie domain with www - tried, but no effect. After
all, it's been working for more than a year without www.
* Corrupt session table? I don't think so -- as I said, I
truncated it. Also ran analysis and repair on it, and on all
other tables as well, in fact.
Now, there is _some_ progress. I have set the site to maintenance mode
by setting the "site_offline" variable.
SURPRISE - I am not being kicked out of the session! Tried all sorts
of things - access rebuild, cache clearing, switching off all but bare
necessary modules, opening and saving permissions page and the admin
user account, etc., logical and illogical things.
Still, however, when I set the site out of the maintenance mode, it
kicks me out of the session on second or third click. Sometimes more
clicks. I think I went up to 5.
I wonder why should it work in maintenance mode but not without it?
Cookies seem to be OK, right? Session table as well. It must be
something else.. but what?
_This is the crucial question_: What is special about the maintenance
mode that could be causing this difference? This should narrow down
the possible causes.
Thanks for any further ideas...
Tomáš
PS Btw, I've also installed the dev version of D6 (because of the menu
router problem, which I was experiencing in D6.15 and I suspected that
could be a problem), but it did not help.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 04:31, Don <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've seen a corrupt sessions MySQL table cause problems too.
-Don-
On 2/23/2010 9:57 PM, Randy Fay wrote:
Since this *really* sounds just like the "cookies not enabled in
browser" situation, I just wanted to mention something I'm sure
you already tried, which is accessing it from a different browser
or computer.
It's trivial to make all drupal logins stop working: You just
turn off cookies in the browser, and it works just like you're
describing.
-Randy
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:30 PM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You can always edit the database directly.
It sounds like a cookie problem, though. Try setting the
cookie domain explicitly in your settings.php file to just
example.com <http://example.com> (not www.example.com
<http://www.example.com>, or whatever).
Also, check to make sure that uid 0 is still intact in the
database. That's another common source of weirdness, in my
experience.
--Larry Garfield
Tomáš Fülöpp (vacilando.org <http://vacilando.org>) wrote:
Hi,
Is there a backdoor way to force admin login if
everything fails? Something like the way
$update_free_access is changed to TRUE to allow running
update.php....?
A client got locked out of D6.15 completely, including
admin. Login seems to work (I see admin only links on
logon), cookies are set, but only on the initial page....
any subsequent click is treated as done by an anonymous
user (checked the watchdog this way). I've cleared all
browser caches, Drupal caches via the db, also the Drupal
sessions table, checked the cookie domain, the admin user
record exists in the user table, etc. in settings.php,
deleted and re-uploaded D6.15. Nothing in the php logs.
Nothing unusual in watchdog - just access denied by
anonymous... Spent an equivalent of a day on this but I
know there is a ton of things I can still try - e.g.
rebuild access rights. But I do need to log in first,
only by myself. So... is there a way to force admin
login? Cannot find this info anywhere.
Thanks!
Tomáš
--
Randy Fay
Drupal Development, troubleshooting, and debugging
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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