Found while testing fix for T127860: MobileFrontend using ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars hook with User dependent data locally:
2016-02-23 20:21:48 wiki exception ERROR: [911d102a] /w/load.php?debug=false&lang=en&modules=startup&only=scripts&skin=vector BadMethodCallException from line 960 of /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/session/SessionManager.php: Sessions are disabled for this entry point {"exception_id":"911d102a"} [Exception BadMethodCallException] (/vagrant/mediawiki/includes/session/SessionManager.php:960) Sessions are disabled for this entry point #0 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/session/SessionManager.php(187): MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager->getSessionFromInfo(MediaWiki\Session\SessionInfo, WebRequest) #1 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/WebRequest.php(664): MediaWiki\Session\SessionManager->getSessionForRequest(WebRequest) #2 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/user/User.php(1175): WebRequest->getSession() #3 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/user/User.php(384): User->loadFromSession() #4 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/user/User.php(5093): User->load() #5 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/user/User.php(2706): User->loadOptions() #6 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/context/RequestContext.php(368): User->getOption(string) #7 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/StubObject.php(204): RequestContext->getLanguage() #8 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/StubObject.php(160): StubUserLang->_newObject() #9 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/StubObject.php(104): StubObject->_unstub(string, integer) #10 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/StubObject.php(179): StubObject->_call(string, array) #11 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(824): StubUserLang->__call(string, array) #12 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/cache/MessageCache.php(767): MessageCache->getMessageFromFallbackChain(StubUserLang, string, boolean) #13 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/Message.php(1148): MessageCache->get(string, boolean, StubUserLang) #14 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/Message.php(771): Message->fetchMessage() #15 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/Message.php(874): Message->toString() #16 /vagrant/mediawiki/extensions/WikimediaMessages/WikimediaMessages.hooks.php(137): Message->plain() #17 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(195): WikimediaMessagesHooks::onMobileLicenseLink(string, string, array, string) #18 /vagrant/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/MobileFrontend.skin.hooks.php(100): Hooks::run(string, array) #19 /vagrant/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/includes/MobileFrontend.hooks.php(436): MobileFrontendSkinHooks::getLicense(string) #20 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/Hooks.php(195): MobileFrontendHooks::onResourceLoaderGetConfigVars(array) #21 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderStartUpModule.php(109): Hooks::run(string, array) #22 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderStartUpModule.php(370): ResourceLoaderStartUpModule->getConfigSettings(DerivativeResourceLoaderContext) #23 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoaderModule.php(707): ResourceLoaderStartUpModule->getDefinitionSummary(DerivativeResourceLoaderContext) #24 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php(622): ResourceLoaderModule->getVersionHash(DerivativeResourceLoaderContext) #25 [internal function]: Closure$ResourceLoader::getCombinedVersion(string) #26 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php(623): array_map(Closure$ResourceLoader::getCombinedVersion;1299315079, array) #27 /vagrant/mediawiki/includes/resourceloader/ResourceLoader.php(675): ResourceLoader->getCombinedVersion(ResourceLoaderContext, array) #28 /vagrant/mediawiki/load.php(43): ResourceLoader->respond(ResourceLoaderContext) #29 /var/www/w/load.php(5): include(string) #30 {main}
$wgUser is unstubbed due to the wfMessage() call in WikimediaMessagesHooks::onMobileLicenseLink() which does not specify a content language. Since this is done inside the ResourceLoaderGetConfigVars hook it should not vary on user.