Bug 380417 – phpmyadmin "cannot start session error"

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Lisa 2011-08-23 21:30:13 UTC]

Created attachment 284403 [details]
output of phpinfo()

Hi,

I recently upgraded apache, mysql and php on my desktop pc.
Now I have this error when I try to use phpmyadmin :

"Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly."

I really do not understand what is going wrong. I created the pma tables and configured properly my config.inc.php file .
The error log file says nothing interesting.
session.save_path is properly defined.
The root user (who started apache and mysql) has read/write permission on /temp .

Has anyone a clue?

Thanks anyway.


Lisa Haston

[Comment 1 Alex Legler (RETIRED) 2011-08-23 21:58:11 UTC]

Attach emerge --info, your error log with error_reporting=E_ALL and `stat /tmp'.

[Comment 2 Lisa 2011-08-24 09:55:16 UTC]

Hi,

The error_reporting was already defined as E_ALL | E_STRICT .

I'll attach all three files.

Thanks.


Lisa

[Comment 3 Lisa 2011-08-24 10:06:50 UTC]

Created attachment 284447 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 4 Lisa 2011-08-24 10:08:02 UTC]

Created attachment 284451 [details]
cave info

I use cave, so maybe this will be relevant too.

[Comment 5 Lisa 2011-08-24 10:08:30 UTC]

Created attachment 284453 [details]
stat /tmp

[Comment 6 Lisa 2011-08-24 10:11:13 UTC]

Created attachment 284455 [details]
apache2 error_log

I truncated a bit the beginning of the file

[Comment 7 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-08-25 14:29:27 UTC]

Comment on attachment 284451 [details]
cave info

That's information relevant to your package manager. Specify the package on the command line to produce output relevant to the package. (Or so it used to work.)

[Comment 8 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2011-08-25 14:31:23 UTC]

(Also, you should really update your entire system. If emerge/cave --info output is correct, then you're vulnerable to quite a few attacks.)

[Comment 9 Lisa 2011-08-28 12:01:45 UTC]

Hi,

sorry for the delay, I was some days out of town ;)

I will post the cave info phpmyadmin file this evening (for information purpose).
It really seems to be a problem with this package. I had no trouble with php, mysql or apache.

You suggested I update my system, instead I'am rebuilding it now. It will take a couple of days from now. I'll be back then.

Anyway, lots of thanks for your help.

Lisa

[Comment 10 Lisa 2011-08-28 20:18:56 UTC]

Created attachment 284933 [details]
cave info phpmyadmin