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1 day 14 hours ago #272869 by Winterwolf
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LimeSurvey version: LimeSurvey Community Edition Version 6.10.5+250217
Own server on-prem: Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.5
Database: 8.0.29-commercial MySQL Enterprise Server
PHP: Version 8.1.32
Apache: Version 2.4.62
Load Balancer: F5
Survey theme/template:
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Hi everyone,We’re encountering an issue where user accounts cannot be deleted through the User Management interface. When we click “Delete user,” nothing happens.Here’s what we’ve tried so far:
  1. Permissions: Confirmed that the account has Superadmin rights — still unable to delete users.
  2. Developer Tools: In the browser’s Network tab, the “Delete user” request returns a 200 status with an empty body. It appears to succeed, but the deletion doesn’t happen in the database.
  3. Direct DB Test: Running
    Code:
    DELETE FROM lime_users WHERE uid = X;
    directly in the database works as expected.
  4. Infrastructure: We’re behind an F5 load balancer with session stickiness properly configured.
  5. Debug Logging: Enabled LimeSurvey debug mode temporarily:
    $config = 2;
    $config = 1;
    No errors were logged during the deletion attempt.
Has anyone encountered this behavior before or found a workaround? Any insight would be appreciated.

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1 day 13 hours ago #272870 by holch

LimeSurvey version: LimeSurvey Community Edition Version 6.10.5+250217


Before going on a bug hunt I would update to the latest version of LS. Your's is exactly 8 months old and there have been a lot of versions in between. This might have been a bug in this specific version. So before you dive deeper into this, I recommend to update to the latest version and see if this issue persists.

If it persists, we can go on a hunt.

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