Meta login fails
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	IKhitron
	Jan 22 2016, 6:42 PM

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A couple of hours there is no possibility to login to meta. The login screen refreshes itself every second. Surprisingly, the login in all the other wiki sites does not log you in to meta.
Different browsers show different behaviour on this bug.

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Status	Subtype	Assigned	Task
Resolved		• Deskana	T75616 Tracking: API/backend issues blocking Wikipedia app development
Resolved		Anomie	T32788 Allow triggering of user password reset email via the API
Open		None	T90925 General authentication improvements for MediaWiki
Resolved		Anomie	T48179 Allow a challenge stage during authentication
Open		None	T5709 Refactoring to make external authentication and identity systems easier
Resolved		Tgr	T43201 UserLoadFromSession considered evil
Resolved		Anomie	T67493 Session is started by EditAction (problem for extensions using UserLoadFromSession hook)
Open	Feature	None	T55156 Provide option to force a login session to end within a certain time
Open		None	T89459 Modernize MediaWiki authentication system (AuthManager)
Resolved		Anomie	T123451 Deploy SessionManager and bot passwords
Resolved		Anomie	T124453 Meta login fails

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IKhitron created this task.Jan 22 2016, 6:42 PM

IKhitron raised the priority of this task from to Unbreak Now!.

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IKhitron added a project: MediaWiki-User-login-and-signup.

IKhitron added subscribers: IKhitron, eranroz.

Restricted Application added a subscriber: Aklapper. · View Herald TranscriptJan 22 2016, 6:42 PM

It worked for me.

Still does not work. So it not just different browsers, but also different users.

It changed now. Not multiple refreshings, but one refresh and return to previous URL with the message of CentralLogin.

Tgr added projects: Reading-Infrastructure-Team-Old (Don't use), MediaWiki-Core-AuthManager.Jan 22 2016, 6:47 PM

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IKhitron updated the task description. (Show Details)Jan 22 2016, 6:50 PM

IKhitron set Security to None.

Please provide the username(s). If you know how to do that, the details of the login request and response (as shown in the browser's debug toolbar, for example) would also be very helpful.

The username is IKhitron.
And the console stays empty all the time.

I am sure it's something new, because I'm in meta three times every day, on quarry.

If it's IKhitron, there is a single Session [30]CentralAuthSessionProvider<-:2362354:IKhitron>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: Unverified user provided and no metadata to auth it and then a bunch of Session [30]CentralAuthSessionProvider<+:2362354:IKhitron>XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX: User token mismatch (with a different token every time) in the session log for meta.

I have no idea what does this mean.

Tgr added a parent task: T123451: Deploy SessionManager and bot passwords.Jan 22 2016, 7:08 PM

Global/central login seems to be completely broken - I have to log in with every wiki. May be related to the issue posted here.

In T124453#1957151, @Denniss wrote:

Global/central login seems to be completely broken - I have to log in with every wiki. May be related to the issue posted here.

I don't know whether it's related to this issue, but that is T124468: CentralAuth is not logging the user into loginwiki anymore.

It could be a cluster-wide issue.

@Phe experiences login difficulties with https://wikisource.org.

I were disconnected twice from fr.wikipedia.org this evening.

Please give exact times, a patch was deployed two hours ago.

login trouble too, with firefox 38/linux on https://wikisource.org with different symptom, I get "Login error. Wikisource uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again. " when trying to log, (cookie enabled in my browser) A few other people reported the same issue on wikisource.org .

Exact time is 5 mins ago

Ok, a bit more data, if I delete all cookie for wikisource.org I can login, if I logout and try to login again, I can't with "Login error. Wikisource uses cookies to log in users. You have cookies disabled. Please enable them and try again. " as error message

@Phe, only shared wikisource or single-language wikis as well?

Can reproduce but only on wikisource.org.

Reproduction is straightforward: open incognito mode (current Chrome), go to wikisource.org, log in, log out, log in -> error. Meta works correctly.

just fyi: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#Login

Downgrading as we rolled back the code.

This happened to me today. Seems OK now.

• MZMcBride subscribed.Jan 24 2016, 4:12 AM

I wasn't here yesterday, checked now - it works fine.

Splitting the wikisource error to T124620 as it's easy to reproduce so probably not the same issue. (Also it doesn't involve anything like "return to previous URL with the message of CentralLogin").

@IKhitron, any issues this time? A number of bugs have been fixed since last week (specifically, this issue looks like it could have been T125114).