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    • Help - Intermitant Fatal Error

    Posted by Maarten posts: 45 United Kingdom

    I have just upgrade the server i am running am Mandrake 10.1, MySQL 4.0, Appache 2.0 on. Before, I never had this problem, but now I intermitantly get the following error:

    Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /var/www/html/*****/tiki-setup_base.php on line 180

    where the stars are the particular wiki directory.

    If I click on refresh immediately the same error comes up. If I leave the page for a few minutes then refresh, the page that I was on, & not the link I clicked on appears.

    I am not sure whether this happens from outside my LAN, but assume it does.

    Any suggestions?

    Maarten

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    Posted by Maarten posts: 45 United Kingdom

    Although it isn't the same error message as described in the Tikiwiki requirements document, I have updated my PHP.INI file with memory increase to 32M. I hope this rectifies the fatal error...

    Maarten


    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom

    Sounds like PHP is unable to write to /tmp possible down to openbasedir being enabled: InstallTikiUnderSafeMode could help

    Damian
    http://tikihost.net

    Posted by Maarten posts: 45 United Kingdom

    > Sounds like PHP is unable to write to /tmp possible down to openbasedir being enabled: InstallTikiUnderSafeMode could help
    >

    I looked at this document and found that the base assumptions were not relevant to myself as I have full access to the server. I have also granted all permissions to everyone on the /tmp directory to test and have found that the problem still occurs?

    Should I pursue the openbasedir route?

    Posted by Damian Parker posts: 2881 United Kingdom

    > > Sounds like PHP is unable to write to /tmp possible down to openbasedir being enabled: InstallTikiUnderSafeMode could help
    > >
    >
    > I looked at this document and found that the base assumptions were not relevant to myself as I have full access to the server. I have also granted all permissions to everyone on the /tmp directory to test and have found that the problem still occurs?
    >
    > Should I pursue the openbasedir route?

    Depends on the settings within your php.ini

    Damian
    http://tikihost.net

    Posted by Maarten posts: 45 United Kingdom

    > Sounds like PHP is unable to write to /tmp possible down to openbasedir being enabled: InstallTikiUnderSafeMode could help
    >
    > Damian
    > http://tikihost.net

    I have tried what is recommended in this document. I have set the smarty.class.php variable to false. I haven't installed the PEAR locally, as I am running 1.8.5 and 1.9.0 (error occurs in both versions) as it states that it is not required in these versions.

    I have tried changing the permissions on the /tmp directory to incorporate myself, apache and root. Even with tese settings, I am still coming up with the error message.

    Can anybody help?

    Maarten


    Posted by Maarten posts: 45 United Kingdom

    Thanks Damian, I will look at that as a possible solution as the increase in memory in the PHP.INI file did not work.

    A question on your answer, why would it only be intermitant?


    Posted by Maarten posts: 45 United Kingdom

    I have ensured that the /tmp file is accessable. Now the error message comes from a different function call.

    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: aswign() in /var/www/html/nnef/tiki-setup.php on line 441

    Any ideas where this function is defined & why this message is coming up?