Faillure to start session

kevin1ab · Post by **kevin1ab** » Sun Mar 06, 2005 4:46 pm

Hello
Centos 3.3 is the O/S
I was running ZM 1.19.5 just fine and did a clean install of 1.20.1 today. Dropped the old db etc.
I initially had some problems with the zm init script starting up that was asked in the forum:
http://www.zoneminder.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4183
I found that problem was my user permissions
were reset to basically 'read' permissions for the ZM database in mysql.
That was fixed and my tables are correctly populated and the init script starts.
When connecting with the web browser I get a new error:
Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module. in /var/www/html/zm.php on line 148

Any ideas? Thanks in advance
Kevin

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:24 am

I've never heard of this before but googling for it indicates that it's not a ZM problem but a php/apache issue. Have you looked at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25876 as there is some discussion there.

Phil

kevin1ab · Post by **kevin1ab** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 4:12 am

That link helped. I changed the php.ini to
session.save_handler = files
and all is well.
Thanks for helping.
Regards

Kevin

Post by **zoneminder** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:05 am

Good I'm glad that fixed it. What did you have it set to before?

Phil

kevin1ab · Post by **kevin1ab** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:23 pm

Hi

On this version of Centos, it is set to 'user' by default.
PHP is version 4,3,2-x

Kevin