[QA] login bug causing widespread test failures on beta (and some on test2)

[Chris McMahon]

If you're interested, discussion, repro, and documentation are in:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62244




On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Antoine Musso <hashar+wmf at free.fr> wrote:

> Le 05/03/2014 22:37, Chris McMahon a écrit :
> >
> >
> > Every once in a while we get one of these "cross-cutting" problems.
> >  Login is one, search is another, where when something goes wrong, tests
> > fail across multiple repos.
> >
> > We encountered one of these issues for Login beginning yesterday, and it
> > is not resolved as of now.  Sorry for the failures, but I'd rather have
> > them right now than kill all of the builds.
>
> Apparently the central auth cookies are not being served to the client
> browser: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/62244
>
> Chris Steipp suspects the Cookies are eaten by the Varnish text cache. I
> talked a bit with him and gave him some basic commands to look at the
> varnish real time logs.
>
> Gotta find centralauth_User cookie!
>
>
> --
> Antoine "hashar" Musso
>
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