Last modified: 2013-06-18 07:46:47 UTC
Ok. Here's the diagnosis. Any attempt to create the account returns a "Fatal exception of type MWException". The account and SUL get created but, email and password get left out. Essentially, the user can't login with the password set or provided by email. Nor can they confirm email and use it to reset the password. This essentially leaves a corrupted, unusable account. Replicating it is easy, just try to create an account.
Confirmed. I get "[76812464] 2013-06-18 02:51:53: Fatal exception of type MWException" when trying to create any account on enwiki, but I receive the correct email confirmation message.
(In reply to comment #1) > Confirmed. I get "[76812464] 2013-06-18 02:51:53: Fatal exception of type > MWException" when trying to create any account on enwiki, but I receive the > correct email confirmation message. You do get an email confirmation message, but the email is not attached to the account. I confirmed this several times.
I'll investigate.
Also confirming: 1. Create an account on en.wikipedia.org and enter data 2. Get "[1903eff7] 2013-06-18 02:39:00: Fatal exception of type MWException" directly after 3. Click link in upper corner to go to your userpage 4. Get: User account "foo" is not registered. [22:31] <+Cyberpower678> Ok. Here's the diagnosis. Any attempt to create the account returns a "Fatal exception of type MWException". The account and SUL get created but, email and password get left out. Essentially, the user can't login with the password set or provided by email. Nor can they confirm email and use it to reset the password.
On fluorine, /a/mw-log/exception.log has /w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&action=submitlogin&type=signup&returnto=Main+Page Exception from line 215 of /usr/local/apache/common-local/php-1.22wmf6/includes/Hooks.php: Detected bug in an extension! Hook VisualEditorHooks::onAddNewAccount failed to return a value; should return true to continue hook processing or false to abort. should be an easy fix for wmf6?
It looks like this bug creates SUL errors too. See User:ChrisWittGeorge as an example of it supposedly not existing but when trying to create on Meta, it claims that there is an SUL.
Fixed as a prod-only patch, will do proper Gerrit shortly.
Full patch by mtraceur: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/69277/
(In reply to comment #7) > Fixed as a prod-only patch, will do proper Gerrit shortly. Fix is working for me.
(In reply to comment #6) > It looks like this bug creates SUL errors too. See User:ChrisWittGeorge as > an > example of it supposedly not existing but when trying to create on Meta, it > claims that there is an SUL. Can these lingering SUL bugs be fixed too, if any?
Merged & deployed. Thanks S, Matthew. > Can these lingering SUL bugs be fixed too, if any? This bug was simple: a hook wasn't returning a value. If the fix fixes it, great. If not, it wasn't caused by this bug in the first place.
