ID: 26038
Comment by: dewaard at netcollective dot nl
Reported By: pedro at dehumanizer dot com
Status: Bogus
Bug Type: Session related
Operating System: FreeBSD 4.9
PHP Version: 4CVS-2003-10-30 (stable)
New Comment:
I encountered this problem while working on a custom
session handler with session_set_save_handler(). All the
virtual hosts on that particular server that contain
session_start() where having this issue, except from the
virtual host on which I was developing the custom
session handler. The only way to solve it was an Apache
restart.
After a while the problem occured again and an Apache
restart fixed this occurence to. I don't know what
caused the problem, but i'm quite sure it happened
because of my experiments with
session_set_save_handler(). I didn't do anything else
that relates to sessions and didn't mess with the ini
settings.
The error occured on PHP 4.3.3 (Apache 1.3.29, Red Hat
8). I've just updated to PHP 4.3.4, but I'm afraid that
won't solve this issue. I will true to find out more
about this problem and will share all the clues that i
can find.
Previous Comments:
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[2003-12-29 16:51:31] der at derdev dot com
I confirm problem on RedHat 7.3, source-built apache 1.3.29, php 4.3.4
as module. Mysql 3.23.56, localhost socket connect.
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[2003-12-16 17:05:45] darren at cpanel dot net
Just FYI, this also happens with apache 1.3.29 and php 4.3.3 and 4.3.4
on RedHat Linux.
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[2003-11-17 18:08:18] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's not PHP bug. (Apache2 is really not ready for production)
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[2003-10-30 07:34:12] pedro at dehumanizer dot com
By the way, if I use Apache 1.3.28 instead, configuring the same
version of PHP with exactly the same options (except replacing
--with-apxs2 with --with-apxs), the problem disappears.
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[2003-10-30 07:30:51] pedro at dehumanizer dot com
Description:
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I believe this bug had already been reported by someone else (#25876),
but it was marked as "bogus".
I'm using FreeBSD 4.9 (and 4.8-STABLE before), Apache 2.0.48 from ports
(and 2.0.47 before), and tried several PHP versions from 4.3.2 to
4CVS-20031030 (today's). All of them exhibit this problem, with
SquirrelMail 1.4.2.
I don't think it's a SquirrelMail problem, however, as the line in
question is a simple
session_start();
The problem is intermitent - when navigating through the webmail, from
time to time, when I click on a link, a blank page appears *very
quickly*, just in the frame which was supposed to be changed. In the
logs, I get this error:
[client 62.169.69.5] PHP Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to
initialize storage module. in /var/www/htdocs/mail/functions/global.php
on line 295, referer: https://www.dehumanizer.com/mail/src/webmail.php
If I reload the page, or go back from the blank page and click on the
same link again, it usually works then. The error rate is hard to
calculate, but it should be less than 1 in 10 times.
I've tried changing the sessions handler between files and mm, but it
doesn't solve the problem. Neither does activating register_globals,
which SquirrelMail doesn't need, anyway.
PHP configure options:
./configure --disable-cgi --with-apxs2=/usr/local/sbin/apxs
--with-openssl --with-zlib --with-gdbm --with-imap --with-iconv
--enable-ftp --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql --with-curl --disable-debug
--enable-exif --enable-sockets --disable-ipv6 --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir
--with-png-dir --enable-dio --with-gettext=/usr/local --with-bz2
--enable-mbstring --enable-mbregex --enable-zend-multibyte
--with-mysql-sock=/tmp/mysql.sock --with-mm=/usr/local
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