#25876 [Com]: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module

ID: 25876 Comment by: admin at cools dot net Reported By: golden at riscom dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: Session related Operating System: freebsd 4.8 PHP Version: 4.3.3 New Comment: WHY BOGUS? I too can reproduce this error on 3 different servers, when using Gallery v1.4-pl2 with PHP Version 4.3.2 on Apache Version 1.3.27 (Unix): Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module. in /home/ottilie/public_html/gallery/session.php on line 59 It appears frequently but not always. ( Gallery is a online photo album application: http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=index ) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-01-16 09:24:08] trouble at lasvegaswebhosting dot com It's interesting that this was marked as bogus as I too am having this same issue. I am unable to figure out why this happens. It is intermittant but very problematic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-11-22 12:21:58] mikael at chl dot chalmers dot se Had the same problem, try --with-apxs2filter=... instead of --with-apxs2=... Solved it for me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-20 08:27:59] golden at riscom dot com here's parameters passed to 'configure' script: --with-apxs2=/usr/local/apache2/bin/apxs --with-zlib --with-bz2 --with-gd --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local --with-png-dir=/usr/local --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local --with-iconv --enable-mbstring --with-mssql --enable-xslt --with-xslt-sablot=/usr/local -with-expat-dir=/usr/local --with-iconv-dir=/usr/local All the additional software(Sablotron, freetds, iconv, libpng, libjpeg, gd) were build from ports collection of FREEBSD-4.8RELEASE exactly, with exept of zlib which was build from source using zlib-1.1.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-20 08:13:49] sniper@php.net Can not reproduce. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-10-20 07:48:26] golden at riscom dot com tried with php-STABLE-200310180730 - same result this message still appears in logs: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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