Last modified: 2013-04-24 18:33:30 UTC
Since the upgrade labs console has been dropping my session more often, or so I thought. It turns out it thinks I'm logged out and logged in at the same time. For example; Hit https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NovaInstance = Login required Hit https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page = Logged in Hit https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:NovaInstance = Login required Hit https://labsconsole.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page = Logged in Is there a timing issue with keystone expiring before mediawiki, is it possible to increase the timeout? Having to login multiple times a day quickly gets annoying.
Related to this - can we not store the session in the db? Currently it's in memcached which if restarted for any reason causes a 'no nova credentials' error message. That error in its self for our use case is silly, as nova is backed by ldap being able to login to labsconsole in the first place implies you have a nova login and as the check is after the 'am I logged in' check it's redundant. Changing it to force a logout breaks others use cases but having the token stored properly in the db, like the mediawiki session token would fix this.
I haven't seen this issue in quite a long time. I believe it's fixed.
