Hi Mathias, On 30 November 2016 at 20:48, Mathias Ertl <m...@restauth.net> wrote:
> Hi, > > On 11/26/2016 06:37 PM, Free Ekanayaka wrote: > >> but email confirmation fails with an undescriptive error > >> message. > > > > Hum, would you mind pasting the error message (even if it seems > > undescriptive, I could forward it to Alioth admins)? > > > > Could you please also try to resend the confirmation email and retry? You > > can do it from: > > > > https://alioth.debian.org/account/pending-resend.php > > So I just tried registration again - my first account was "mathiasertl", > now I tried "mathiasertl2": > > 1. I do get a confirmation email. > Good. > 2. On the confirmation page > (https://alioth.debian.org/account/verify.php?confirm_hash=...) I do not > really get an error, BUT I see a <p class="error"></p> element with no > content. This might just be rendering issue or something, but it might > also indicate an incorrectly displayed error. > I *think* it's just a bug in the HTML that gets generated, but not a "real" problem. > 3. When I submit the form, I get the headline "Beendigung mit Fehler" (a > very bad translation of "an error occured") and the error message "Could > Not Get User". > I tried the whole process myself, and got the same result. However I just realized that most probably the issue is actually a stupid one: when you get to this step 3, in the "Login name:" field of the form you have to append "-guest" to your user name. For example: Login name: [mathiasertl-guest] Password: [******] (or "mathiasertl2-guest" if you use the confirmation URL from your second attempt). I'm afraid it's not obvious at all, but I hope it will solve the problem. Please let me know if it is the case. See also this FAQ: https://wiki.debian.org/Alioth/FAQ#Why_do_I_have_a_.22-guest.22_suffix_on_my_account_.3F It doesn't directly explain this, but it's what made me think about it. Free
