Re: [SM-USERS] HELP! Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /tmp) in /usr/local/squirrelmail-1.4.4/functions/global.php on line 333

[Jonathan A. <jo...@sq...>]

> Squirrelmail has been working fine for months. One morning I start
> receiving
> the following error in the folder window:
>
>
>
> Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user
> (path: /tmp) in /usr/local/squirrelmail-1.4.4/functions/global.php on l=
ine
> 333
>
>
>
> Randomly this error shows up on the login screen, after typing a messag=
e
> and trying to send it, in the folder window just leaving the inbox sit
> displayed on my screen. Sometimes I can leave my Inbox sit on the scree=
n
> for an hour or more with no problems.

Okay, this is a server side issue, not SquirrelMail.  It'd appear your PH=
P
installation keeps trying to use the "user" storage module for the
sessions, instead of "files" like we require.  Check your php.ini file,
and any apache configuration files that may affect the SquirrelMail
directory, and make sure the session.save_handler is set to files, and no=
t
user.  If it is set to "files", then you may want to check to see if you
are running any kind of php optimizer, or caching engine of any kind.  We
are having a random similar issue on the SquirrelMail website (our home
page) and one of the techs that manages the servers is reporting it might
be caused by an optimization engine they have in place.

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Jonathan Angliss
<jo...@sq...>