#19022 [Com]: PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (files)

ID: 19022 Comment by: prikid at gmail dot com Reported By: phpbugs at mx4k dot com Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Session related Operating System: linux (rh7.3), apache 1.3.26 PHP Version: 4.2.2 New Comment: We are currently getting the same error on 2 different enviroments. This does not happen all the time, but often enough to be an annoyance during testing. Environment as follows: 1. FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE [root@crossbow /]# cat /usr/local/etc/php.ini | grep "session" session.save_handler = files session.save_path = "/var/tmp" session.use_cookies = 1 [root@crossbow /]# php -v PHP 5.2.9 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.7 (cli) (built: Mar 31 2009 12:24:17) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies [root@crossbow /var/www/branches]# apachectl -v Server version: Apache/2.0.63 Server built: Apr 16 2008 16:52:47 --- 2. Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4 [root@131080-stagingdb /]# cat /etc/php.ini |grep "session" session.save_handler = files session.save_path = "/var/lib/php/session" session.use_cookies = 1 [root@131080-stagingdb /]# php -v PHP 5.2.9 (cli) (built: Feb 27 2009 14:38:59) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies [root@131080-stagingdb logs]# apachectl -v Server version: Apache/2.0.52 Server built: Jun 29 2007 05:07:13 Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-28 17:50:49] rasmus@php.net session.save_path = "0;\tmp" ?? What is 0;\tmp supposed to mean? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-02-28 12:04:47] m1ckx at hotmail dot com I too am getting similar messages - essentially where the session file is failing to create. Unfortunately I am getting it all the time, which is a problem as I am trying to teach myself PHP at home. What is different for me is that I am running a Windows 2K server, using IIS, and PHP 5.2.2. The initial error I get at the first session_start() call is: The description for Event ID ( 2 ) in Source ( PHP-5.2.2 ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display messages from a remote computer. The following information is part of the event: php[352], PHP Warning: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: open(\tmp\sess_8t6afg6omu4au9ofqnru80l6r5, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in F:\MixWeb\mdroot\php_sandpit\ch10\login.php on line 60. The extract of my php.ini is: [Session] session.save_handler = files session.save_path = "0;\tmp" session.use_cookies = 1 session.name = PHPSESSID session.auto_start = 0 session.cookie_lifetime = 0 session.cookie_path = / Having been trying to search down answers for this but so far no luck. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-01-19 22:07:24] ozdemir_e at yahoo dot com I have been getting the same error... in php.ini file i have set the session.save_path to public_html/cgi-bin/session And the chmod of the session folder is 777 Everything looks fine technically but even if that... i get this error. I really need help to figure out this issue and fix it. And the hosting company that i work with they insist on saying that it is not a server error. But I do not understand that even if the chomod of the session.save_path pointing to the correct folder and chmod 777, I am getting this error. PHP Warning: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-staPHP Warning: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: open(/home/users/web/b469/as.xxxxx/sess_164a72ebe9813cc1b0341ad6f6edbc8a, O_RDWR) failed: Read-only file system (30) in /hermes/web03/b469/as.xxxx/public_html/admin/index.php on line 31 PHP Warning: Unknown(): Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/users/web/b469/as.yuvamemlak/public_html/cgi-bin/session) in Unknown on line 0 thank you in advance ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-12-28 23:45:50] allan at emeraldforest dot com I have been experiencing the same (or very similar) problem. One interesting thing that I found is that sometimes I can reload page A and see the session data happily sitting there, but on page B the data is not there. I have both pages open in tabs in Firefox and I can go back and forth reloading the pages. Page A always has the data, page B never does. Both pages require the same init.php script to start the session. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-01-03 21:49:22] stranger at teuton dot org I just started encountering this problem today, after having upgraded to PHP5 from a PHP4 app. As with some of the other reports I have some users reporting constant problems, while others have no problems at all. I using Linux, with session files written to /tmp. I can see that many session files are being written, but at the same time some session calls produce errors. I do not use any session function in my code other than session_start() ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. 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