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None of my forms in CiviCRM are submitting properly. When I go to edit or create or delete a custom data field, a profile, a member type, ect... the changes are not applied.  I get to the form, fill it out, and submit. Everything looks fine, but nothing changes. No error. No logged apache errors. Just a silent failure.

I have CiviCRM 1.9 set up with Drupal 5.3 in a CentOS, Apache 2. MySQL 5, PHP 5.1 environment.
I DONT have "clean urls" enabled, for Drupal.

This is a new problem, just arisen this week. We've been submitting forms successfully for two months. Recently we edited a few profiles, and contribution pages. Not sure of what the LAST thing that was done in CiviCRM before this problem.

Forms in Drupal work fine. My co-workers, with different user accounts and on separate computers, experience the same results. Change to another (alternate) CiviCRM database and still same problem. I scanned the civicrm files on the server, and all are still in sync with the original downloaded package.

There IS also an issue with "profile not configured for this action" fatal error when a user logs in. Refresh the "/user" page, and all is well. I think this has to do with an existing profile being loaded by the user account page, but not being set to "profiles" in it's display settings. If so, I can't address this until I can submit a form.

Anybody have any idea what's the problem?
I've been stumped for two days!

Thanks,
Mani

Thanks Lobo,

Your random suggestions seem worth a look into. I'd like to follow them, but I'm still kind of lost.

I'm not experienced in MySQL (or civicrm) enough to know where to find the, query log, session table, or partition information. We are on a VPS, and I have root access via ssh.

I'm willing and able.
And I appreciate your time.
Could use more clarity.

Thanks,
Mani

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Update:
After an insightful observation on the part of  a co-worker,  we have more clues to work with. He observed that CiviCRM was using a "key" variable in the URL of search results pages. (which, in his case, resulted in the "Could not find valid key" error)

He emailed that key to me (remember, my primary login was not getting the error). When I went to his error page, I got the same error. When I posed the SAME search query on my own without an error, I sent HIM the URL. He got the error when he tried to visit the URL I sent him. Then I posted a NEW search query, with different results, and removed the "key" variable from the URL in the results page. I got the same NEW results. So the session is saved in a cookie, and the latest search results are saved in the session. I then deleted my cookies from this website, and NOW I get the same errors my coworkers do.  (I feel so normal)

So I guess all of this would be SOO obvious to a CiviCRM guru, but we are not that. So we are pretty proud to have figured this out (so far) by ourselves. It's taken us a few days of "Not getting work done" to trouble shoot this bug. We REALLY want to get back to work, but still haven't found a solution. Now that I am experiencing the SAME bug (after deleting my cookies), and (again) cannot submit forms in CiviCRM, we really can't get any work done.

I've tried:

• Clearing the Drupal sessions table (solves one problem and causes another?)
• Clearing the Drupal cache_content table
• Drupal URL and CiviCRM site URL are the same
• Disabling custom data field groups that I had altered via SQL queries

Any more ideas?
thanks,
M.M.