Posted by labrown on September 21, 2009 at 5:18pm
My lesson for the weekend is to remember to never point two Drupal instances at the same database using the same credentials, etc. Weird bad things happen that take hours and hours to figure out.
Yes, I did this. Even better, I did it with two different versions of Drupal 6, so the error messages were even weirder. Oy. That's several hours of my life I could have spent better. :-)
The takeaway lesson: When you are done messing about in a sandbox install of Drupal, make sure to completely dismantle it.