https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35792

Sam Reed (reedy) <[email protected]> changed:

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--- Comment #9 from Sam Reed (reedy) <[email protected]> 2012-05-15 22:50:01 
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(In reply to comment #3)
> From what I can tell from looking in the cut-down toolserver replica, the
> global account (globaluser) doesn't actually appear to exist. It only "exists"
> in the "list of global names" (globalnames), which I think is used to check
> conflicts. Hence, the name exists so can't be created, but the global account
> doesn't exist so can't be deleted. I could be wrong, but that may help someone
> actually fix it.

Indeed. For "Maldez1" it was still showing entries, and a global user id that
didn't exist. Manually invalidating the cache for the user then made it
disappear on Special:CentralAuth and gave the more sensible error message of
'There is no global account for "Maldez1"'

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