A user reports getting a session timeout when migrating many issues: 2005-05-25 10:34:47,953 ERROR [action.admin.workflow.WorkflowMigrationManager] Error occurred creating change log: java.lang.IllegalStateException: getAttribute: Session already invalidated java.lang.IllegalStateException: getAttribute: Session already invalidated at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSession.getAttribute(StandardSession.java:953) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade.getAttribute(StandardSessionFacade.java:171) at org.apache.catalina.session.StandardSessionFacade.getAttribute(StandardSessionFacade.java:171) at webwork.action.factory.SessionMap.get(SessionMap.java:92) at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.workflow.WorkflowMigrationManager.getRemoteUser(WorkflowMigrationManager.java:211) at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.workflow.WorkflowMigrationManager.createChangeLog(WorkflowMigrationManager.java:195) at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.workflow.WorkflowMigrationManager.migrate(WorkflowMigrationManager.java:163) at com.atlassian.jira.web.action.admin.workflow.scheme.SelectProjectWorkflowSchemeStep2.doExecute(SelectProjectWorkflowSchemeStep2.java:64) at webwork.action.ActionSupport.execute(ActionSupport.java:153) at com.atlassian.jira.action.JiraActionSupport.execute(JiraActionSupport.java:46) at webwork.dispatcher.GenericDispatcher.executeAction(GenericDispatcher.java:131) at com.atlassian.jira.web.dispatcher.JiraServletDispatcher.service(JiraServletDispatcher.java:186) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193) at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.parsePage(PageFilter.java:142) at com.opensymphony.module.sitemesh.filter.PageFilter.doFilter(PageFilter.java:58) Having the session time out in such a way can be quite disastrous for the consistency of the database.