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After debugging this for hours I finally seem to have narrowed it down, but still don't know how to explain it. I first register an account using Auth::instance()->create_user();
Then save some other fields using ORM and save()
User gets an email with an activation code and when clicked activates the account and redirects them to the login page.
That all works perfectly. User then enters their information in username and password. In the login function I check that the account is active using ORM and if it is, I continue with the login. Doing Auth::instance()->login() and then setting more database things with another ORM.
That again is perfect. But when I check the Auth session in my cookie or database its gone, and if I then change the page from login, Auth::check() fails.
And when checking the database, the user that was just created still has 'null' for the login_hash and 0 for last_login, but other fields that I changed once I do a Auth::instance()->login() are changed to the correct value, things like ip address. So from what I have found during my many hours of debug was that it only happened on newly created accounts and only happens when I do an ORM query before Auth::instance()->login(). When I remove the ORM before the login it works perfectly, the session sticks around after page change. But there doesn't seem like there should be a reason to not allow this, almost like its a bug, or I could just be doing something wrong.
I cut a lot of the code just to show the pieces that don't work, code still works as I describe.

  if(Input::post())
  {
   $is_active = Model_Users::find()
    ->where('username', Input::post('username'))
    ->get_one();
    
   if(Auth::instance()->login(Input::post('username'), Input::post('password')))
   {
    $user = Model_Users::find()
     ->where('username', Input::post('username'))
     ->get_one();
     
    $user->last_ip_address = $user->ip_address;
    $user->ip_address = Input::real_ip();
    
    if($user->save())
    {       
     Session::set('user_id', $user->user_id);
     Session::set_flash('success', 'Logged in.');
     var_dump(Auth::check());  // returns true all the time
     //Response::redirect('list');
    }
   }
  }

When I comment out the $is_active it all works fine.
Also when uncommenting the redirect, the message of 'Logged in' shows, but when checking the session I'm not logged in.
So the Login() returns true and then removes the session but my custom session set of user_id is still there. Maybe I just don't understand something, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am willing to provide more code if you think it would help.