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:
forgot to tell ... permissions on /tmp set to 777 session__handling is set to file after apachectl restart it works again for some days and then the problem returned Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-06-17 20:37:29] mitch at webcob dot com Having this problem again too. I WAS having this problem with FreeBSD 4.4 / Apache 1.3.27 / PHP 4.3.2. The problem started happening again a couple days ago... Seems to be a Heisenbug - ever time I add code to output debug info and restart apache, the problem seems to have disappeared or moved to a different website / vhost. Problem does not seem to happen on all vhosts at the same time... Just upgraded to PHP 4.3.7 The problem still persists. I have done all the recommended "fixes" - checking disk space, permissions, changing storage location, etc. Am currently working on a db based storage moduel to include on all sites experiencing the problem as in interrum fix. Please CC me on any updates. thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-06-17 10:18:10] searchadm at goschorn dot de 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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"); ?> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 :/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [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 ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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