[ic] Re: Auto-create of user failed

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Oct 10 12:27:04 2002


At 04:16 PM 10/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>racke@linuxia.de wrote:
>>Joachim Leidinger writes:
>>
>>>Hi list,
>>>I got the error message
>>>-------- snip ----------
>>>217.235.129.219 5CBW99QX:217.235.130.253 - [10/October/2002:13:04:59 
>>>+0200] ieos /cgi-bin/ieos/process.html Safe: Auto-create of user failed. 
>>>at (eval 6996) line 1.
>>> >
>>> >  die errmsg("Auto-create of user failed.");
>>> >
>>>-------- snip ----------
>>>But that user with the username "U04657" was created into the userdb 
>>>table and I can see the information like address, street, etc. from that 
>>>user. What are the possible causes of the above error message?
>>
>>Any more related entries in the error log ? It is possible that
>>the (auto)login fails after the database entry has been created.
>
>Yes!
>
>------- snip from the catalog error.log -----------
>217.235.129.219 5CBW99QX:217.235.130.253 - [10/October/2002:13:04:59 
>+0200] ieos /cgi-bin/ieos/process.html Denied attempted login by user 
>'U04657' with incorrect password
>217.235.129.219 5CBW99QX:217.235.130.253 - [10/October/2002:13:04:59 
>+0200] ieos /cgi-bin/ieos/process.html Safe: Auto-create of user failed. 
>at (eval 6996) line 1.
>------- snip from the catalog error.log -----------

[snip]

Without knowing anything else, I would guess that your etc/username.counter 
is overlapping values that are already in the userdb. the code on 
log_transaction tries to create a new user, but the username is already in 
use... ?

- Ed L.


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