ID: 25876 Comment by: venkat at ehostpros dot com Reported By: golden at riscom dot com Status: Closed Bug Type: Session related Operating System: freebsd 4.8 PHP Version: 4.3.3 New Comment:
##################################### Problem : Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module ##################################### The solution (fingers crossed) was to clear the session.save_path directory - it got thousands of session files there. Hope it helps someone out there. ############################# The above solution works fine :) Thanks, Venkatesh.G Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-04-01 16:37:42] php dot net at harrysufehmi dot com I just experienced this problem with php 4.3.3 The solution (fingers crossed) was to clear the session.save_path directory - it got thousands of session files there. Hope it helps someone out there. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-03-08 05:38:31] hck7 at mailcity dot com We installed PHP 4.3.1 and this problem disappears!!! Thanks for all !!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-03-02 04:49:14] ozone at sange dot fi As suggested by mivox on Feb 12 in comments to bug 26038, which seems to be a duplicate of this one, I added a line in my apache.conf: php_value session.save_handler files (source: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=260389 ) After this I haven't seen any problems (running for a bit less than a day), but it's hard to say whether it really helped. Maybe there are still problems with the initialization of session parameters when PHP is running as a module and the same code is used to serve lots of requests. For me the problems started when using FreeBSD 4-STABLE (4.8 I think, or even earlier) with PHP 4.2.x and continued with PHP 4.3.x, but they were very infrequent when using Apache 1.3. Upgrading to Apache 2 made problems turn up much more often and users started complaining loudly. I applied the patch from CVS that was supposed to fix the problem to PHP 4.3.4 (from FreeBSD ports) but it didn't help. Of course that's not quite the same as trying a recent snapshot, but other people have tried that and it didn't help either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-27 10:30:37] bernoico at netcabo dot pt I also have made the change you sugested and the problem continues... You have to reopen this bug report. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-27 08:49:34] php at lathwood dot co dot uk We are having the same problem described in this bug report. I have tried both the patch and two CVS versions of PHP, none of which have solved this problem yet. We are currently running php4-STABLE-200402261430 which still causes the errors reported above, the only thing I can see that is wrong is: PHP Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) The storage module above is user but php.ini defines the storage module as files which is what it should be and is being used. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/25876 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=25876&edit=1
