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That code seems buggy. I'll fix it in the 2.0 release. I'm not sure why those lines exist and will check out why and potentially delete it

lobo

As far as we are aware all CiviCRM session variables are scoped. Most of them are in the array element CiviCRM. A few created by HTML QuickForm Controller in the array element _CRM_* (there is one of those created for every form submitted)

So not sure how/why simplenews can step on a civicrm related variable

lobo

I've looked through the SimpleNews module and not surprisingly SimpleNews does not modify the scoped CiviCRM session variables. It uses session variables named 'messages', 'email', 'newsletter', 'simplenews_subscriptions_filter', and few others.

Through my work so far I haven't seen any modifications to the session that should cause CiviCRM to fail to read the session or find its scoped session variable. The sessions I've traced earlier in this thread all seem to have valid CiviCRM scoped variables, but CiviCRM is not able to read them. Some of these variables have full form data in them, but fail nonetheless.

The solutions discovered by those that encounted this problem are all different and no one has yet found root cause.

Since this problem has occurred intermittently for others, is it possible that the CiviCRM session logic is fragile? Not resilient to certain updates to the session?

$cott

I guess what I'm saying is that session corruption may be a mis-diagnosis for the problem I'm encountering.

I'm unable to find anything wrong with the sessions CiviCRM is getting from Drupal, with and without the SimpleNews module enabled. I've checked the matching braces/brackets in an editor for the CiviCRM scoped variable and can't find any issues. For some reason, CiviCRM seems to be looking up the scoped session, not finding it, then creating a new one --- even when a fully populated form is present.

Can you point me to the program where that decision is made and I'll keep pursuing the problem.

Thanks for your help. I think if this gets solved for me, then it will for others as well. I can easily replicate the problem, so problem determination is possible.

$cott

Hello,

I was getting the same error.  I'm on CiviCRM 1.7 and I build a contact csv import module in Drupal (5.x).  When I tried to edit/save any of my imported contacts I would get "Could not find valid value for ct".

First of all, simplenews will cause that error to be thrown.  For some strange reason when you attempt to save a CiviContact record, with simplenews block enabled, the simplenews block will try to submit the block form.

So the first thing I did was disable the block.

The second thing you might have to do is to make sure all website, for the contact, have "http://" in front of the address.  I'm not sure if this is specifically a 1.7 thing, but if I tried to edit and save a contact with an address of www.google.ca I would get an error.  However editing a record with a site of http://www.google.ca will work like a charm.

I hope this saves everyone a lot of hair.  I've almost lost all of mine trying to find this.

Cheers,

I reposted on a topic like this
I do not have Simple news either. (use to but it is disabled now)
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,1965.0.html

If you're still having problems w/ this error message - it would be best if you started a new thread with all the specifics about when it occurs, what you've done to try and diagnose / debug (including investigating error logs), what version of CiviCRM / CMS / OS you're running, etc.