You will see this error when you are using
windowstokenroleprovider
<add applicationName="/" name="MyRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />
Change to sql role provider in your web.config file. check your central admin and
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\WebServices\SecurityToken\web.config
files as well.
<add connectionStringName="SQLConnectionString" applicationName="/" description="Stores and retrieves
roles from SQL Server" name="MyRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider, System.Web, Version=2.0.3600.0, Culture=neutral,
PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a" />