Several tickets are reporting a similar failure cause of mismatch of cache state and database state for user/preference data:
- T333925: Error during MFA setup for wikitech.wikimedia.org: MWException: CAS update failed on user_touched. The version of the user to be saved is older than the current version.
- T334102: Wikitech: Preferences not updating after email change
https://logstash.wikimedia.org/goto/c90d1a3ada8d842ab1dcb6a6b4dc111d shows a trending pattern of "CAS update failed" errors for wikitech: