By loloyd on

It appears that this is definitely a bug in 4.7 beta 6 as it has happened more than twice already.

Everytime I create a fresh new website using Drupal 4.7 beta 6, the first user, who is supposed to be god or god-like, cannot login properly. I have verified in my MySQL Drupal database that the first user (user with id #1) has been properly configured. Initially, I was able to do some config changes. But once I logged out from that superuser status, I cannot log back in. There are no visual clues as to why I cannot log back in but the same anonymous user interface is served. If I put in the same god username but with an intentionally wrong password, the correct "Sorry. Unrecognized username or password. Have you forgotten your password?" message appears. I have therefore concluded that me logging in as god user #1 with the correct password brings out a Drupal bug on new 4.7 beta 6 installations.

After logging in, the "Who's online" block displays something like this:
There are currently 1 user and 3 guests online.
but in reality, Drupal wouldn't even allow me to access /index.php?q=admin, even manually. And the admin menu doesn't even show. And the user login boxes remain. Except for that "currently 1 user" bit, everything looks like I'm being treated as an anonymous user.

Kindly check please. This apparently did not happen in 4.7 beta 5 nor in 4.6.5, but users in this forum are reporting a similar weirdness in 4.6.6.

Thank you.

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loloyd commented

After all the above has failed, I also tried requesting for a new password for the first user. After pasting the one-time login URL from the resulting email, Drupal says that the link being used has expired or been used already and thus is offering me to request anew. This, after 5 minutes of requesting for a new password and receiving it in my mailbox and trying it on for the first time.

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sime
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Location Melbourne
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Hi
If this is indeed a beta6 bug, I recommend you log this as an issue.
http://drupal.org/project/issues/drupal

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loloyd commented

I have reported it already. Thanks. Now this thread is a dupe of that issue posting.

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druforum commented

I installed 4.6.6 and the same problem happened.
After I registered the first account and went to login it didn't do anything. It just returned to the same login page.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

I had a similar problem. Deleting cookie issued by host running drupal seemed to fix it for me anyhow.

--Dave

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druforum commented

Well I installed it on another server that has php 4.3.11 and it worked correctly.
The older php 4.3.2 server had that problem. I just saw Drupal 4.6.6 requires php 4.3.3.
There should be some checks on the system requirements when first installing it.