GlobalRenameQueue: after rename, Special:CentralAuth gives an exception of type "Exception"
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	Elfix
	Feb 28 2015, 12:24 PM

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After renaming a user, I am unable to open CentralAuth on the user's former name. See https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:GlobalRenameQueue/request/170/view.

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Hm, a few hours later, I can now access this page. Guess it was nothing.

Depending on how large the rename is, the database can be inconsistent during the process:

Update user.user_name, officially changing the name of the user locally
Update logging, image, and other tables. This can take some time depending on how active the user is
Update centralauth's localnames.ln_name row, which is what Special:CentralAuth uses.

If 2 takes a long time and 3 hasn't happened yet, it's likely that Special:CentralAuth will throw an exception for the old name.