Login via LiveJournal fails

[perlpunk]

When I click Sign In, then click LiveJournal, enter my username, then hit the Sign In button, I get:

An error occurred: The sign-in attempt was not successful; please try again.

It doesn't even go to the LiveJournal login page.

Opera 11.62, FF 12.0, linux

JS, Cookies enabled

On a different site, LiveJournal openid login works.

[arc]

Hi, Tina. Thanks for reporting this problem.

When I follow the same sign-in process as you ("Sign In" nav link on b.p.o; select "LiveJournal"; enter LJ username; click "Sign In" button), my browser does:

POST http://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-cp.fcgi
  __mode=login_external
  blog_id=1
  entry_id=
  static=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.perl.org%2F
  key: LiveJournal
  openid_userid: aaroncrane

which in turn redirects to:

GET http://www.livejournal.com/openid/server.bml?openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0&openid.return_to=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.perl.org%2Fmt%2Fmt-comments.fcgi%3F__mode%3Dhandle_sign_in%26blog_id%3D1%26static%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fblogs.perl.org%252F%26key%3DLiveJournal%26oic.time%3D1340117022-433afc7778e43990ce3a&openid.claimed_id=http%3A%2F%2Faaroncrane.livejournal.com%2F&openid.identity=http%3A%2F%2Faaroncrane.livejournal.com%2F&openid.mode=checkid_immediate&openid.realm=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.perl.org%2Fmt%2Fmt-comments.fcgi

which redirects to:

GET http://blogs.perl.org/mt/mt-comments.fcgi?__mode=handle_sign_in&blog_id=1&static=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.perl.org%2F&key=LiveJournal&oic.time=1340117022-433afc7778e43990ce3a&openid.ns=http://specs.openid.net/auth/2.0&openid.mode=setup_needed

which shows the same "An error occurred: The sign-in attempt was not successful; please try again" message that you report.

The openid.mode=setup_needed bit at the end of that last URL looks promising as something to investigate, but unfortunately this is where my lack of OpenID knowledge seems to be getting in the way — I've no idea what to look at next.

Do you get the same sort of redirect chain as I'm seeing?

If you can suggest something I can do to investigate this further, I'd be glad to help; and I'm sorry I haven't been able to fix this yet.

[jayallen]

It would be illuminating to know if there were any further details/errors in the MT Activity Log for the blog you were trying to sign into or in the System-level Activity Log. The front-end error is purposefully generic. If you can test on a blog you own, look under the Tools navbar menu for the Activity log. If nothing's there, we'll need someone with System Administrator privileges to check out the System-level activity log.

By the way, I assume that LJ sign-in is broken on ALL blogs and not just that one?

[jayallen]

FWIW, this may be caused by either a recent switch by LiveJournal (and/or any other provider) from OpenID 1.x to 2x OR some change to the underlying CPAN or MT-shipped OpenID modules. If I can work with a System Administrator to verify things, it shouldn't be too hard to clear up... (Note to self: MT bugs 69889, 71011 and 93706)

[bulk88]

Now I get this when trying to log in via LJ.