Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user

[mrbog]

My server was working fine (no one else changes it but me, it's a
local server on my lan), and all of a sudden I get:

Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module:
user...

It didn't even happen after like a reboot or something, it just
happened one morning.

I fixed it by changing:

session.save_handler = user

to

session.save_handler = files

But my question is- why did I have to do that? What could've
happened? How do I make it work with "user" again?

thanks

[Rik]

mrbog <dt******@hotmail.comwrote:

>
My server was working fine (no one else changes it but me, it's a
local server on my lan), and all of a sudden I get:

Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module:
user...

It didn't even happen after like a reboot or something, it just
happened one morning.

I fixed it by changing:

session.save_handler = user

to

session.save_handler = files

But my question is- why did I have to do that? What could've
happened? How do I make it work with "user" again?

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but AFAIK, 'user' is not a deault handler.
If there are problems saving sessions with the 'user' session handler,
you'd have to check that logic. In many custom handlers it's done in
combination with a database, so you might check wether that database is
reachable, not at it's limits (either by primary/unique index or size
enforced by hoster).
--
Rik Wasmus

[mrbog]

On Mar 4, 11:28 pm, Rik <[e-mail]:

mrbog <[e-mail]:

My server was working fine (no one else changes it but me, it's a
local server on my lan), and all of a sudden I get:

Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module:
user...

It didn't even happen after like a reboot or something, it just
happened one morning.

I fixed it by changing:

session.save_handler = user

to

session.save_handler = files

But my question is- why did I have to do that? What could've
happened? How do I make it work with "user" again?

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but AFAIK, 'user' is not a deault handler.
If there are problems saving sessions with the 'user' session handler,
you'd have to check that logic. In many custom handlers it's done in
combination with a database, so you might check wether that database is
reachable, not at it's limits (either by primary/unique index or size
enforced by hoster).
--
Rik Wasmus

It's not saving to a database, it's creating a session file.

And as stated in my question there is no "hoster", it's my lan server,
and I'm the only one that touches it.

[Rik]

mrbog <dt******@hotmail.comwrote:

It's not saving to a database, it's creating a session file.

Then check why you cannot create the file.

And as stated in my question there is no "hoster", it's my lan server,
and I'm the only one that touches it.

Then it should be absolutely no trouble te check what logic you're using
to save sessions. Don't leave us guessing, check the code. Troubleshooting
without the code and a single incomplete error-message is not possible for
us.

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[mrbog]

On Mar 6, 12:34 am, Rik <[e-mail]:

mrbog <[e-mail]:

It's not saving to a database, it's creating a session file.

Then check why you cannot create the file.

And as stated in my question there is no "hoster", it's my lan server,
and I'm the only one that touches it.

Then it should be absolutely no trouble te check what logic you're using
to save sessions. Don't leave us guessing, check the code. Troubleshooting
without the code and a single incomplete error-message is not possible for
us.

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What code??

session_start()

There's the code.

WTF??

[Rik]

mrbog <dt******@hotmail.comwrote:

On Mar 6, 12:34 am, Rik <[e-mail]:

>mrbog <[e-mail]:

It's not saving to a database, it's creating a session file.

Then check why you cannot create the file.

And as stated in my question there is no "hoster", it's my lan server,
and I'm the only one that touches it.

Then it should be absolutely no trouble te check what logic you're using
to save sessions. Don't leave us guessing, check the code.
Troubleshooting
without the code and a single incomplete error-message is not possible
for
us.

What code??

session_start()

session.save_handler = user means there's another handler then the default
files handler busy with maintaining sessions. The save handler that
actually does the work has code. That's the code that fails. That's the
code we don't know.

If you don't know what code does the handling, I seriously urge you to
take better care in putting up just anything on your lan server, and do a
server wide search in all files for the text 'session_set_save_handler'.

If there's no other session handler, setting session.save_handler to
anything other then files is just moronic.

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