ID:               25876
 Comment by:       searchadm at goschorn dot de
 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:

PHP Fatal error:  session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module:
user (path: /tmp) in ...

PHP 4.3.7 (4.3.4 also)
Apache 2.0.48 
Suse Linux 8.2

after apachectl restart it works again for a while


Previous Comments:
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[2004-06-15 15:05:39] datacompboy at mail dot ru

Currently runned workaround via
auto_prepend_file       = /etc/httpd/phpinc.php

and in /etc/httpd/phpinc.php
<? session_module_name("files"); ?>

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[2004-06-15 14:47:13] datacompboy at mail dot ru

I have running Apache
SERVER_SOFTWARE         Apache/1.3.20 Sun Cobalt (Unix) mod_jk mod_ssl/2.8.4
OpenSSL/0.9.7d PHP/4.3.7 mod_auth_pam_external/0.1 FrontPage/5.0.2.2510
mod_perl/1.26

Small code to see:
<?
 phpinfo();
 session_start();
?>

Producing
  session.save_handler  files     files
and below:
  Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module:
user (path: /tmp) in a.php on line 3

Can't say what to do to fix that _STRANGE_ error :/

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[2004-06-14 01:43:26] sha3134 at njit dot edu

I was having this problem intially with php-4.3.2 with squieralmail.
After an upgrade of both SQ and PHP-4.3.7, the problem persists, though
more random. Hitting refresh usually clears this error. As i discovered
though the error happens with pages using start_session and 
session.save_path permissions for files are correct and i have tried
clearing it out. I have not tried the:

   ini_set('session.save_handler', 'files');

as i its already defined in my php.ini file. 

Note this is a very random bug/feature. Could this be due to high load
or high io on the server ?

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[2004-05-27 09:23:21] yertletheturtle82 at yahoo dot com

I am running version 4.3.6 and receive this error consistently when
attempting to run phprojekt. It was running with no problems
previously. I am also running Drupal which uses php also, but seems to
have no problems at all. Not sure why this started happening all of a
sudden. Running RH9.0.
It seemed to start when I was trying to re-compile PHP with IMAP
support.
Thanks

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[2004-05-25 03:14:02] darrel at lasvegaswebhosting dot com

This issue is becoming quite the thorn in my side.  We are hosting
about 30 sites that are having this problem with the Session_Start()
Function.  I was hoping that moving my clients to a new server would
eliminate this issue but it did not.  It is definately a PHP issue.

I also don't understand why this issue/bug report was closed.  It is
far from resolved.

Please enlighten me.

Thanks,

Darrel

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