Yikes! – Rollback failed. There is no active transaction.

I just spent the last 12 hours or so trying to figure out why my symfony website is producing this error when I try to submit a form. Google didn’t help, so I thought I would post it here in case any of you other symfony programmers out there are having the same problem.

I’m using Doctrine and I’m almost positive you would receive a different message if you are using Propel – maybe even a much better error message that would help you solve the problem in much less than 12 hours. (Actually, I slept during that 12 hours, but as most programmers do, I tried to fix the problem in my dreams )

It turns out that the new server I’m using didn’t have the PDO drivers for MySQL enabled in PHP. I had no reason to suspect this since every other managed server I’ve used with this company had those drivers installed by default, so I was a little frustrated when I figured out what the problem was. But, that’s life as a programmer

I hope this helps you find your solution quicker!