Login Engine, user object "marshal data too short"?

This suddenly started happening to my app today. No code changes, so I expect that this has something to do with a server change.

I'm using Login Engine and ActiveRecord sessions. LE stores the whole user object in the session, then pulls it out as needed with UserController#current_user.

Out of the blue today this starts failing with the infamous "you're serializing AR objects into the db so you're getting a 'marshal data too short' error". No code has changed in this app in weeks and suddenly I'm getting this error.

I can clear all sessions from the DB, do something to create a session and store a user, then hit another page that pulls the user out of the DB and I get a Application Error with the log saying "marshal data too short."

Thoughts?

thx, --dwf