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"Forgot to leave an edit summary" preference mis-fires when edit sessions are lost
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Author: titoxd.wikimedia

Description:
I've found a bug that's currently ongoing on the live site. Here's the steps I
used to replicate it:

  1. First, I edited page, opening the edit window
  2. Filled out the edit summary, first thing
  3. Made the edit
  4. *Got the "We cannot process your edit due to a loss of session data. Please

try again" error message. I tried again.

  1. Got another lost-session message. Kept trying
  2. After n number of tries, my edit succeeds, however, I get a "you forgot to

leave an edit summary" message.

Tried saving, lost my session again.

This happened several times yesterday, and I never changed the edit summary
between tries. I think that is the reason the "you did not enter an edit
summary" message was triggered.

Version: 1.9.x
Severity: normal

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Reference
bz8340

Event Timeline

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Low.Nov 21 2014, 9:29 PM
• bzimport added projects: MediaWiki-Page-editing, TestMe.
• bzimport set Reference to bz8340.
• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).
• bzimport created this task.Dec 21 2006, 1:14 AM
• bzimport added a comment.Dec 21 2006, 1:21 PM

rotemliss wrote:

Bug 7200 (which was fixed in r16372) may be related. About the edit summary: was
it blank first, and was reset to be blank?

• bzimport added a comment.Dec 21 2006, 5:08 PM

ayg wrote:

(bug 7220, not bug 7200)

• bzimport added a comment.Dec 21 2006, 6:39 PM

titoxd.wikimedia wrote:

No, it was never blank, nor reset to blank. It was the same non-blank value all
the way along.

AzaToth added a comment.Dec 21 2006, 7:06 PM

Just testing, please ignore :)

aaron added a comment.Jan 2 2007, 4:31 AM

I noticed that the auto summary for undo seems to trigger this as well.

• bzimport added a comment.Jan 9 2007, 12:47 AM

titoxd.wikimedia wrote:

When is the MD5 hash for the edit summary calculated? If it is generated only
once, on the first call of ?action=edit, then this error shouldn't be triggered.
Same thing for the undo error, as the MD5 hash seems to be generated after the
"Undo revision..." summary is filled by MediaWiki.

• bzimport added a comment.Jan 23 2007, 8:40 PM

tderouin wrote:

FWIW: i usually find that this happens when either mediawiki can't reach a
memcached server or the memcached server is incorrectly configured in
LocalSettings.php.

• bzimport added a comment.Jul 12 2011, 4:15 AM

EN.WP.ST47 wrote:

Attempted to replicate, was unable to do so. Correct spelling in title and add testme tag.

• bzimport added a comment.Jul 12 2011, 4:17 AM

EN.WP.ST47 wrote:

Actually, this looks like a similar bug to bug 8912, and people there seem to have tried similar debugging steps, but much more recently.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8912 ***

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