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

ID: 19022 Comment by: ShaneO@alldigitalservices.com.au Reported By: phpbugs@mx4k.com Status: Open Bug Type: Session related Operating System: linux (rh7.3), apache 1.3.26 PHP Version: 4.2.2 New Comment: Rather than have it in the log file which it probably registers in as well, I have the message displaying on my ecommerce site just after the session crashes into oblivion losing all cart items and user log-in data. This is EXTREMELY URGENT as My clients are pissed at me. How the hell do i workround this ???? What the hells causing it??? I suspect that it has something to do with the level of depth that is utilised in a require_once stack... eg if a require once calls a page that issues a require once or include which calls a page that issues another require once... etc... At some point the server gets lost as to where the session cache is being written to and goes belly up Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-27 06:08:13] phpbugs@mx4k.com hi, the problem returned. it doesnt seem to be affected by register_shutdown_function. the day i thought the problem was gone was related to a problem at our ISP (which caused very low traffic (5k instead of 70k users)) maybe its just a problem under high load or something like that. im back at the old problem (tried apache+php rpm (with dso), same problem). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-27 03:22:12] m.heidenwolf@ehotel.ag hi, i have randomly the same problems. I have a Apache/1.3.26 with PHP Version 4.2.3-dev (23.8.2002) somebody reported that you can workaround this Problem with an shutdown_function wich makes an session_write_close but this is not the case as you see in the error_log; this is bugkiller.php The opposite way like reported here has no effect because before i had no register_shutdown_function. my error Log: [Tue Aug 27 08:47:12 2002] [error] PHP Warning: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/tmp/) in /[...]/bugkiller.php on line 5 my php ini is standard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-25 20:21:18] rossr@reactive.com Hi, I've been having the same problem that you have been experiencing. You added a comment to my submission last week (Bug #19029) to setup error logging. I enabled the error logging after reading your post and I haven't been getting any or the errors that you have been getting but our users are still being logged out of the site. We are not using the "register_shutdown_function" which would explain why I haven't been getting the same error logs that you have been getting. PHP is running as the CGI version with Apache/1.3.19 (Unix) and the site has FrontPage/5.0.2.2510 extensions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-23 06:15:30] phpbugs@mx4k.com hi, problem solved. still a bug in php. I was using "register_shutdown_function" to dump some info to a logfile. somehow it breaks the save_handler from session mod files. I removed the shutdown function and put the line into an auto append php file. Now my logfile is clean and by now i didnt get any strange session problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-08-22 07:16:31] phpbugs@mx4k.com . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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/19022 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=19022&edit=1