For over a day, new users were not able to register or retrieve passwords getting the message:
"The form data has been altered, the session-id field is required. "
About an hour ago it suddenly started working again without us doing anything other that swearing.

Our site, www.nynjtc.org, is set to require captcha on registration and retrieve, and while mollom was broken the captcha did not appear.

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dries’s picture

dries commented

I tracked down a bug in the Drupal 5 module of Mollom -- the server list wasn't properly reset when a problem occurs. The latest version of the Drupal 6 module of Mollom does not have this problem.

I've committed a fix to the HEAD of the DRUPAL-5 branch and will create a new release later today.

As an interim fix, you can force your server list to be reset by visiting the Mollom settings page at ?q=admin/settings/mollom.

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michelle
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Visiting that page fixed it for me. Ugh... Times like this, I really wish module maintainers had a way to broadcast important messages to all users. How many potential users have I lost because the signup was broken? I'm not blaming Mollom; I realize bugs happen. But this is a really critical problem that I would never have known about if I didn't have someone who tried to sign up email me about it.

Michelle

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dries commented

Yep, we'll be posting an announcement later tonight. Hopefully that will help get the message out.

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dries commented
Status: Active » Closed (duplicate)

It looks like there might be an additional problem with the error handling of the XML-RPC implementation in Drupal core. See #574940: Loss of communication - Visit admin/settings/mollom to reestablish communications for details. I'm marking this issue as duplicate.