[Koha-devel] Sessions terminated at random under Plack

[Jonathan Druart]

2016-08-30 19:40 GMT+01:00 Tomas Cohen Arazi <tomascohen at gmail.com>:
> Magnus, there's been a lot of movement on the caching layer, and some of
> that work has been backported to the stable releases. Also, the
> RestrictSessionByIP setting was getting in the middle
> (https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=17050).
>
> There's also a problem with memcached initialization in C4::Context that
> makes sessionStorage=memcache fail to persist sessions.

Please confirm and open a bug report if it's still the case.
I don't recreate it.

> My suggestion would be to set sessionStorage to 'mysql' and disable the
> RestricSessionByIP syspref.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> El mar., 30 ago. 2016 a las 8:24, Magnus Enger (<magnus at enger.priv.no>)
> escribió:
>>
>> Dear Community,
>>
>> I am seeing a strange problem, and I'm not sure where to start digging.
>>
>> I have a (big) server with 30 odd Koha instances. One of these
>> instances has been running under Plack for quite some time now,
>> without any problems.
>>
>> Two new instances have a problem where librarians get kicked out of
>> the intranet more or less frequently, with a message like "Your
>> session has expired, please log in again".
>>
>> We had this problem on 3.22.x.
>> After upgrading to 16.05.02 it went away.
>> After upgrading to 16.05.03 last night it came back again.
>>
>> It is not consistent. Earlier today it looked like you could log in,
>> click on a link, get thrown out, login again and then things would
>> work. Later users got kicked out every single time they clicked on a
>> link in the intranet.
>>
>> All sites are running off the official Debian packages, on the same
>> server.
>> Memcached is installed, enabled and used for storing sessions.
>> Switching SessionStorage to the DB does not stop the problem.
>> Stopping and disabling Plack for these two instances makes the problem go
>> away.
>>
>> I have not found anything interesting in Plack or Apache logs.
>>
>> Anyone got a hunch what might be causing this? Or where to start digging?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Magnus
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