Not seen that before – have you just upgraded buddypress?
the only thing i can think of is that you might be caching logged in users which you shouldn’t.
other than that you could see if its a plugin or theme issue.
It could be a theme or plugin issue
Plugins
Deactivate all but bbpress and see if this fixes. if it does, re-enable one at a time to see which is causing the error.
Themes
If plugins don’t pinpoint the problem, as a test switch to a default theme such as twentytwelve, and see if this fixes.
if its your theme contact your theme author.
@robin-w thanks for your note — we’ve been using bbpress and buddypress with our forums for a while.
@robkk thanks for the tips. I’ve deactivated all plugins (which actually helped with another problem, so thank you!) but that didn’t seem to do the trick.
since this site is active, I’ll make a test environment to switch themes and comment back with my findings.
thanks all!