#26038 [Com]: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module

From: Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 21:54:22 +0000
Subject: #26038 [Com]: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module
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 ID:               26038
 Comment by:       mivox at mivox dot com
 Reported By:      pedro at dehumanizer dot com
 Status:           Bogus
 Bug Type:         Session related
 Operating System: FreeBSD 4.9
 PHP Version:      4CVS-2003-10-30 (stable)
 New Comment:

Correction: Pair upgraded *to* FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE *from* 4.6...


Previous Comments:
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[2004-02-12 16:52:36] mivox at mivox dot com

Happens frequently on my osCommerce site, hosted at Pair, running
Apache 1.3.29 and PHP 4.3.4. The problems started in November 2003, and
they began upgrading to FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE (incl. the Apache and PHP
versions noted above) in November.

I have just tried implementing the suggestion given above about the
session.save_handler = files php setting, by adding the following to my
.htaccess file (as per Pair's suggestion):

php_value session.save_handler files
php_value magic_quotes_gpc 1

If the problem reappears after altering the .htaccess, I will report
back. It seems to be running fine right now, but it is a maddeningly
intermittent problem.

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[2004-02-05 06:42:40] bugs dot php dot net at mkaart dot net

Hi,

I had similar problems on my Gentoo Linux box running Apache 2.0.48 and
php4. The problem was solved when I changed the following setting from
"user" to "files" in the php.ini:

session.save_handler = files

Note: This broke drupal (a CMS i have running), but enabling .htaccess
for drupal, which sets session.save_handler to user, fixed that as
well.

Hope this helps...

Regards,

Marnix Kaart

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[2004-01-05 03:28:35] dewaard at netcollective dot nl

I encountered this problem while working on a custom 
session handler with session_set_save_handler(). All the 
virtual hosts on that particular server that contain 
session_start() where having this issue, except from the 
virtual host on which I was developing the custom 
session handler. The only way to solve it was an Apache 
restart.

After a while the problem occured again and an Apache 
restart fixed this occurence to. I don't know what 
caused the problem, but i'm quite sure it happened 
because of my experiments with 
session_set_save_handler(). I didn't do anything else 
that relates to sessions and didn't mess with the ini 
settings.

The error occured on PHP 4.3.3 (Apache 1.3.29, Red Hat 
8). I've just updated to PHP 4.3.4, but I'm afraid that 
won't solve this issue. I will true to find out more 
about this problem and will share all the clues that i 
can find.

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[2003-12-29 16:51:31] der at derdev dot com

I confirm problem on RedHat 7.3, source-built apache 1.3.29, php 4.3.4
as module.  Mysql 3.23.56, localhost socket connect.

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[2003-12-16 17:05:45] darren at cpanel dot net

Just FYI, this also happens with apache 1.3.29 and php 4.3.3 and 4.3.4
on RedHat Linux.

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