Dealing with Adobe forums error, "a serious error has occurred in the system"
Note: This blog post is from 2017. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.I happened to try to visit today an Adobe forums page, when I got this error:
We're sorry but a serious error has occurred in the system.
If this happens to you, I have a possible quick solution (if you just want to get to the page in question):
Use your browser's menu option to have it create a "new private window" (FireFox), or "new incognito Window" (Chrome), or "new session" (IE), or the like.
This will open a new window for your browser, and it will NOT send any cookies to the page in question. And you should find that suddenly the forums "work", which tells you that the problem was about the server's unhappiness with something about the cookies in your browser.
If that's enough, great. If you want to know a bit more, read on.