Django's transaction handling changed in 1.6, and the TransactionMiddleware is now deprecated. It turns out (after much debugging) that if you still have it in the middleware list, the logout() view will fail. Removing it so we can go forward with Django auth.

levkowetz · levkowetz · commit 29fe2e87ea18 · 2014-03-23T23:15:50.000Z
- Legacy-Id: 7538
diff --git a/ietf/settings.py b/ietf/settings.py
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ def skip_suspicious_operations(record):
     'ietf.middleware.SMTPExceptionMiddleware',
     'ietf.middleware.RedirectTrailingPeriod',
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
-    'django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware',
     'ietf.middleware.UnicodeNfkcNormalization',
     'ietf.secr.middleware.secauth.SecAuthMiddleware'
 )

Original file line number	Diff line number	Diff line change
`@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ def skip_suspicious_operations(record):`
`143`	`143`	`'ietf.middleware.SMTPExceptionMiddleware',`
`144`	`144`	`'ietf.middleware.RedirectTrailingPeriod',`
`145`	`145`	`'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',`
`146`		`- 'django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware',`
`147`	`146`	`'ietf.middleware.UnicodeNfkcNormalization',`
`148`	`147`	`'ietf.secr.middleware.secauth.SecAuthMiddleware'`
`149`	`148`	`)`