I have just installed an update that fixes this issue. 

I've checked it: at least this woman can now login. 

Please report if you notice anything strange.

-ivan

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Ivan Kurmanov <duraley@gmail.com> wrote:
Yes, Christian. And I have already discovered this issue myself. This
is another side-effect of the session code overhaul I did for "admin
in disguise" and the deceased account.

I'm working on a fix.

-ivan

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Christian Zimmermann
<zimmermann@stlouisfed.org> wrote:
> This new user cannot log in after confirmation. I replicated the problem.
>
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 12:40:41 +0800 (CST)
> From: wangjianhua <wangjianhua@hnu.edu.cn>
> To: RePEc Author Service <authors@repec.org>
> Subject: Re:[RePEc] confirm your registration
>
> Dear Christian Zimmermann,
>      I have trouble in logging in when I entering webside. Information about
> problem paste as following, really hope your answer and solution
>                             Best Regards
>                                                    Jianhua Wang
> Application Error
>
> We are sorry. A problem occurred inside our system. It is not your fault.
> Here is what happened:
>
> Assertion (user name is not yet known to the Web::App object) failed!
>  at /usr/local/share/perl5/Carp/Assert.pm line 281
>        Carp::Assert::assert(undef, 'user name is not yet known to the
> Web::App object') called at /home/aras/acis/lib/Web/App.pm line 1400
>        Web::App::userlog('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)', 'name data changed:
> variations') called at /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Person.pm line 89
>
>  ACIS::Web::Person::compile_name_variations('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)',
> 'HASH(0x369b080)') called at /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Person.pm line 166
>        ACIS::Web::Person::bring_up_to_date('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)',
> 'HASH(0x369b080)') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Session/SOldUser.pm line 389
>
>  ACIS::Web::Session::SOldUser::set_current_record_no('ACIS::Web::Session::SOldUser=HASH(0x23699b0)',
> 0) called at /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Session/SOldUser.pm line 238
>
>  ACIS::Web::Session::SOldUser::set_userdata('ACIS::Web::Session::SOldUser=HASH(0x23699b0)',
> 'ACIS::Web::UserData=HASH(0x369b110)',
> '/home/aras/acis/userdata/w/a/wangjianhua@hnu.edu.cn.xml') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Session/SOldUser.pm line 175
>
>  ACIS::Web::Session::SOldUser::object_set('ACIS::Web::Session::SOldUser=HASH(0x23699b0)',
> 'ACIS::Web::UserData=HASH(0x369b110)',
> '/home/aras/acis/userdata/w/a/wangjianhua@hnu.edu.cn.xml') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/Web/App/Session.pm line 79
>        Web::App::Session::new('ACIS::Web::Session::SOldUser',
> 'ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)', 'HASH(0x369b0c8)', 'object',
> 'ACIS::Web::UserData=HASH(0x369b110)', 'file',
> '/home/aras/acis/userdata/w/a/wangjianhua@hnu.edu.cn.xml') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Session.pm line 37
>        ACIS::Web::Session::new('ACIS::Web::Session::SOldUser',
> 'ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)', 'HASH(0x369b0c8)', 'object',
> 'ACIS::Web::UserData=HASH(0x369b110)', 'file',
> '/home/aras/acis/userdata/w/a/wangjianhua@hnu.edu.cn.xml') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Services.pm line 70
>        ACIS::Web::start_session('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)', 'user',
> 'HASH(0x369b0c8)', 'object', 'ACIS::Web::UserData=HASH(0x369b110)', 'file',
> '/home/aras/acis/userdata/w/a/wangjianhua@hnu.edu.cn.xml') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Services.pm line 562
>        ACIS::Web::login_start_session('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)',
> 'ACIS::Web::UserData=HASH(0x369b110)', 'wangjianhua@hnu.edu.cn') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/Services.pm line 528
>        ACIS::Web::authenticate('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web/User.pm line 434
>        ACIS::Web::User::normal_login('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/Web/App.pm line 864
>        eval {...} called at /home/aras/acis/lib/Web/App.pm line 857
>        Web::App::handle_request('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40)') called at
> /home/aras/acis/lib/ACIS/Web.pm line 248
>        ACIS::Web::handle_request('ACIS::Web=HASH(0x274ce40
>
>
>
>
>
>
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>>
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>>
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