Hi Brion,
Several things to check:
- Are you or someone else on the server running Drupal or Squirrelmail
or another package that changes the session method settings?
I think SquirrelMail runs on the main server because it is a hosted one. It is not ran on my account but the PHP installation must be global and having problems with that.
- Some stuff at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=25876
Well as it seems it is not much I can do. I have an account on a hosted site, I cannot alter apache nor php configuration. I can only tell the guys who maintain it about it, and see what they can come up with. It is exactly as described in the bug. Pretty random it happens every so other time
- Is /tmp writable? Is it full? Has the session.path been set to some
directory that doesn't exist?
Yep it is writable and empty. Thank you for your pointers Brion, I will have to see what another Wiki does, and in the meantime discuss this with my administrator. Unfortunately it happens way too often to be funny and it is very annoying when you can't save your info.
Just another idea. There is a php nuke script running on there, with messageboard and all. Could that be the bad guy? I read somewhere that global settings for sessions should be reset but they are not. Whenever someone is accessing the board, could it be that my session is screwed up ?
Regards, - Jorgen
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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