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Drupal 4.7, CiviCrm 1.7 (June 8 release)

I have a "special" situation where a client has a public registration process, (where applications need to be approved by the admin) and a backdoor for "invited" participants to register and participate immediately.

The public entrance works just fine.

To deal with the "backdoor" I created a virtual domain (through a Drupal song and dance which creates a virtual domain that points to the same files/tables as the original domain) that shares all tables with the primary domain except for the cache, variables, and system tables in Drupal. This lets me setup the registration process to allow immediate entry through the subdomain , and shares all other Drupal/CiviCRM tables with the primary domain. Redirects to the primary domain handles UI  and URL confusions (for the most part).

So far so good.

Here's the weirdness. Sometimes, the "backdoor" registration process works just fine. Users are added to both the Drupal user table and the CiviCRM contacts / profiles / custom fields.

Other times (appears to be random), I get a "fatal error...invalid key" message. Today for instance. Registering using an Opera browser always generated the error. Registering with Safari or IE7, worked ok.

I could get this consistently by enabling "logintoboggan." I figured out a way to not use that module in this process. Now I get random fatal errors generated by CiviCRM.

I enabled the backtrace function to generate a more detailed error message:

backTrace

--PATH--/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Error.php, backtrace, 236
--PATH--/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Controller.php, fatal, 178
--PATH--/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Controller.php, key, 132
--PATH--/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Controller/Simple.php, crm_core_controller, 60
--PATH--/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/BAO/UFGroup.php, crm_core_controller_simple, 467
--PATH--/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module, getedithtml, 440
--PATH--/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module, civicrm_register_data, 352
, civicrm_user,
--PATH--/includes/module.inc, call_user_func_array, 185
--PATH--/modules/user.module, module_invoke, 2089
--PATH--/modules/user.module, _user_forms, 1191
, user_register,
--PATH--/includes/menu.inc, call_user_func_array, 418
--PATH--/index.php, menu_execute_active_handler, 15


Sorry. A non-recoverable error has occurred.

Could not find valid Key

Return to CiviCRM menu.


I've been trying to debug this for a week but am not getting anywhere. Any help/clues would be appreciated.

bob

Hey lobo-

As you were typing your reply, I found that clue here (at the end):

http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,114.0.html

I did have caching off on my primary domain, but it was turned on in the subdomain.

Resetting the cache setting, clearing the cache, and then restarting the client browser (Opera) seemed to do the trick. We'll see. I've "fixed" this problems several times, then it seem to reappear.

Call this one "tentatively fixed."

Thanks for the quick reply!

Its "fixed" again. Can't figure out what happened. I reinstalled random modules, reset stuff, rebooted the server, cleared any cache I could find...in essence, floundered around. But it all came back just fine.

Go figure.