This often happens for two reasons,
- You removed/added/changed a module without disabling the configuration cache first
- Configuration cache corruption
#To solve 1.
To solve 1.
Clear your configuration cache and if the issue is resolved, nothing further is required.
#To Solve 2.
To Solve 2.
This is a core-code bug in some versions of Magento. You can test if it is caused by this bug by editing Mage_Core_Model_Config
to reflect the following.
public function init($options=array())
{
$this->setCacheChecksum(null);
$this->_cacheLoadedSections = array();
$this->setOptions($options);
$this->loadBase();
$cacheLoad = $this->loadModulesCache();
if ($cacheLoad) {
return $this;
}
+ $this->_useCache = false;
$this->loadModules();
$this->loadDb();
$this->saveCache();
return $this;
}