All of the sudden every user on my site is getting this message when trying to post:

Invalid submission. You could have exceeded session time. Please re-submit or make a backup of your post and login to resubmit if necessary.

Has anyone else every had this problem?

thank you.

First of all you need to check your sessions in you XOOPS admin.

Then i suggest you go to your php.admin and find the XOOPS session table and repair it.

Finally if you still can't fix it try these steps and give us more information:

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I couldn’t find any related issues by searching what next?


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XOOPS Version: 2.0.14
Module Name/Version: CBB 3.04
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MySQL Version: 4.1.20
Web Server Software (Apache/IIS/Other): Apache
Operating System: Linux

Theme you are using: must_dark (occurs under all themes)

Custom template: (Yes/No) No

Debug Messages: Warning: ob_start(): output handler 'ob_gzhandler' cannot be used after 'URL-Rewriter' in file /include/cp_functions.php line 33

A full description of the issue: This message occurs in aboutt 30% of the submitted posts: "Invalid submission. You could have exceeded session time. Please re-submit or make a backup of your post and login to resubmit if necessary."

One can click on submit on this screen and the post will generally go through. We have just lived with it for a while but I hope we can find a solution.

Is there a soloution to this problem yet?

Did you do a search and tried something mentioned in the past?

Suggest google and a search string like


Could it happen when pressing submit multiple times within a time limit?

E.g. someone who had this solved it by:
Quote:

There are more threads about this issue. Seems there are multiple possible reasons.

You can also try a repar on the sessions table.