#49401 [Com]: Semaphore files are being created in / by default

ID: 49401 Comment by: nathan at gossamer-threads dot com Reported By: nathan at gossamer-threads dot com Status: Open Bug Type: Session related Operating System: Gentoo PHP Version: 5.2.10 New Comment: Configure command used: Configure Command => './configure' '--prefix=/usr/lib/php5' '--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu' '--mandir=/usr/lib/php5/man' '--infodir=/usr/lib/php5/info' '--sysconfdir=/etc' '--cache-file=./config.cache' '--enable-cli' '--disable-cgi' '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php/cli-php5' '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active' '--without-pear' '--disable-bcmath' '--with-bz2' '--disable-calendar' '--disable-ctype' '--with-curl' '--without-curlwrappers' '--disable-dbase' '--enable-exif' '--without-fbsql' '--without-fdftk' '--disable-filter' '--enable-ftp' '--without-gettext' '--without-gmp' '--disable-hash' '--without-informix' '--disable-ipv6' '--disable-json' '--without-kerberos' '--enable-mbstring' '--with-mcrypt' '--enable-memory-limit' '--with-mhash' '--without-ming' '--without-msql' '--without-mssql' '--with-ncurses' '--with-openssl' '--with-openssl-dir=/usr' '--disable-pcntl' '--without-pcre-dir' '--disable-pdo' '--without-pgsql' '--without-pspell' '--without-recode' '--disable-reflection' '--disable-simplexml' '--enable-shmop' '--without-snmp' '--disable-soap' '--enable-sockets' '--without-sybase' '--without-sybase-ct' '--disable-sysvmsg' '--disable-sysvsem' '--disable-sysvshm' '--without-tidy' '--disable-tokenizer' '--disable-wddx' '--disable-xmlreader' '--disable-xmlwriter' '--with-xmlrpc' '--with-xsl' '--disable-zip' '--with-zlib' '--disable-debug' '--enable-dba' '--without-cdb' '--with-db4' '--with-flatfile' '--with-gdbm' '--with-inifile' '--without-qdbm' '--with-freetype-dir=/usr' '--with-t1lib=/usr' '--disable-gd-jis-conv' '--enable-gd-native-ttf' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr' '--with-png-dir=/usr' '--without-xpm-dir' '--with-gd' '--with-imap' '--with-imap-ssl' '--with-mysql=/usr/lib/mysql' '--with-mysql-sock=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' '--without-mysqli' '--with-readline' '--without-libedit' '--with-mm' '--without-sqlite' Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-08-28 17:56:01] nathan at gossamer-threads dot com Description: ------------ As of 5.2.10 it seems that the semaphore files are being created in / instead of the usual /tmp. Uncommenting the default session.save_path of /tmp in the php.ini fixes it. Reproduce code: --------------- nathan@ndb3 ~ $ php --version PHP Warning: PHP Startup: mm_create(0, /session_mm_cgi-fcgi1005) failed, err mm:core: failed to open semaphore file (Permission denied) in Unknown on line 0 PHP 5.2.10 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Aug 28 2009 10:23:30) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49401&edit=1