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  • comp.lang.php
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    session_start() intermittently fails on the same page, then works, then works, then fails..

    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('displa y_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?

    Phil

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    • comp.lang.php
      #2
      Re: session_start() intermittently fails on the same page, then works, then works, then fails..


      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('displa y_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_scr ipt.inc.php on line 21
      >
      Phil

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        • comp.lang.php
          #3
          Re: session_start() intermittently fails on the same page, then works, then works, then fails..


          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('displa y_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_scr ipt.inc.php on line 21
          >
          Apparently I am not alone: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25876

          Phil
          Phil

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            • theCancerus
              #4
              Re: session_start() intermittently fails on the same page, then works, then works, then fails..

              we can go arround this error by simply passing session_id in url.
              PHPSESSID

              comp.lang.php wrote:
              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('displa y_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_scr ipt.inc.php on line 21
              >
              >
              Apparently I am not alone: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25876
              >
              Phil
              Phil

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                • comp.lang.php
                  #5
                  Re: session_start() intermittently fails on the same page, then works, then works, then fails..


                  theCancerus wrote:
                  we can go arround this error by simply passing session_id in url.
                  PHPSESSID
                  >
                  Actually that doesn't work either, it dies all the same if PHPSESSID is
                  in the query string or not (?PHPSESSID=... )

                  Phil

                  comp.lang.php wrote:
                  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('displa y_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_scr ipt.inc.php on line 21
                  >
                  Apparently I am not alone: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25876

                  Phil
                  Phil

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                    • Gufo Rosso
                      #6
                      Re: session_start() intermittently fails on the same page, then works, then works, then fails..


                      "comp.lang. php" <phillip.s.powe ll@gmail.comha scritto nel messaggio
                      news:1165596014 .394396.62330@f 1g2000cwa.googl egroups.com...
                      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('displa y_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.
                      <?php
                      session_start() ;
                      include("other_ file.php");
                      echo "......etc

                      this code is good

                      <?php
                      include("sessio n_start.php");
                      this code is NOT found correctly









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                        • comp.lang.php
                          #7
                          Re: session_start() intermittently fails on the same page, then works, then works, then fails..


                          Gufo Rosso wrote:
                          "comp.lang. php" <phillip.s.powe ll@gmail.comha scritto nel messaggio
                          news:1165596014 .394396.62330@f 1g2000cwa.googl egroups.com...
                          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('displa y_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.
                          >
                          <?php
                          session_start() ;
                          include("other_ file.php");
                          echo "......etc
                          >
                          this code is good
                          >
                          and this code breaks sometimes, producing a fatal error involving the
                          supposed value of session.save_ha ndler, which in php.ini is "files" but
                          it thinks it's "user" even if I set it via ini_set() to "files" anyway
                          <?php
                          include("sessio n_start.php");
                          this code is NOT found correctly
                          Why would I write that, that is obviously wrong

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