Posted by comp.lang.php on 12/09/06 00:04

comp.lang.php wrote:
> comp.lang.php wrote:
> > I am using session_start() on index.php and for some reason sometimes
> > it'll fail. No warnings, no errors, no notices, not even after
> > prepending error_reporting(E_ALL) and ini_set('display_errors', TRUE)
> > before session_start() do I see anything, it just plain dies.
> >
> > I used LiveHTTPHeaders to verify that I am getting a 200 OK response,
> > thus everything seems OK except that it's dying on session_start().
> >
> > Sometimes.
> >
> > I'll go and refresh the page and then POOF everything is just fine, the
> > page delivers. I'll refresh a few more times to test and then after 2
> > - 3 times it fails again. Then works again. Then fails again. On and
> > on intermittently.
> >
> > I can't find anything online that addresses such an unusual problem,
> > but what on earth do I do?
>
> Finally was able to produce the fatal error:
>
> Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user
> (path: /var/lib/php/session) in
> /var/www/html/tools/app/include/code_header_script.inc.php on line 21
>
> >

Apparently I am not alone: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25876

Phil
> > Phil

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