ID: 25876
Comment by: gul_murjani at yahoo dot com
Reported By: golden at riscom dot com
Status: No Feedback
Bug Type: Session related
Operating System: freebsd 4.8
PHP Version: 4.3.9-4.3.10
Assigned To: sniper
New Comment:
Hi,
I'm experiencing this problem in at least 2 sites.
Since it's a error that appears in random, I wrote a simple script to
try and reproduce the error. This is the script:
<?php
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); //IE 6 Fix
if ( !isset($_SESSION['ctr']) ) {
echo $_SESSION['ctr'] = 1;
}
else {
echo $_SESSION['ctr']++;
}
?>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;url=test.php">
All it does is invoke "session_start()" and use one session variable.
It then reloads itself every 10 seconds. On HOSTMANIL.ORG and
HOSTMANIL.NET, the error comes up. But there is no pattern at all.
Sometimes out of 20 refreshes, there's an error, half the time. If the
error comes up, I have to do a manual refresh. I notice that the
session variable is not destroyed at all. It continues counting from
where it stopped.
The problem is at one point in HOSTMANILA.ORG, it kept on coming up
every 2 auto refreshes (and I do an F5). But now, it's was good for 45
straign auto refreshes before the error came up. That's how random the
error is.
I do a lot of programming, mostly in PHP but I'm not "deep" technical.
So I'm not sure if I'm missing something.
I'm running the scripts on 5 sites. These are all on different servers
although all of them are from shared hosting services using cPanel /
WHM.
http://www.hostmanila.org/test.php
http://www.hostmanila.biz/test.php
http://www.hostmanila.net/test.php
http://www.vcdpix.com/test.php
http://www.smokedbangus.com/test.php
So far, it's only happened on HOSTMANILA.ORG and HOSTMANILA.NET.
Here's the rundown on each site:
HOSTMANILA.ORG (error)
Linux 2.4.30-gator_r1
Apache 1.3.33 (Unix)
PERL 5.8.4
PHP 4.3.11
cPanel 9.9.9-STABLE 15
HOSTMANILA.BIZ (fine)
Linux 2.4.30-1-s5
Apache 1.3.33 (Unix)
PERL 5.8.3
PHP 4.3.11
cPanel 10.2.0-RELEASE 82
HOSTMANILA.NET (error)
Linux 2.4.26-grsec
Apache 1.3.33 (Unix)
PERL 5.8.0
PHP 4.3.11
cPanel 10.0.0-RELEASE 7
VCDPIX.COM (fine)
Linux 2.4.20-24.9
Apache 1.3.33 (Unix)
PERL 5.8.1
PHP 4.3.9
cPanel 10.0.0-RELEASE 7
SMOKEDBANGUS.COM (fine)
Linux 2.4.20-20.7smp
Apache 1.3.33 (Unix)
PERL 5.8.4
PHP 4.3.10
cPanel 10.0.0-CURRENT 107
I can't imagine developing anything in PHP without making use of
session_start() so I hope the issue is resolved.
Regards,
Gul
hostmanila.com
Previous Comments:
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[2005-05-21 01:24:55] jspec at bellsouth dot net
I have now experienced this beast with a completely different hosting
company. They are both running 4.3.10 - is this fixed in 4.3.11?
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[2005-05-18 22:48:45] dmih at in-solve dot ru
We (as hosting company) are hoping that PHP team will track this bug
down some day.
Indeed, we can do not much to help or to fix it.
This bug is hard to fix because it appears randomly, and there is no
definite recreate scenario. There is assumption that this is
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=32330 bug, but I am not completely
sure.
You may suggest your hosting company to lower average server load - it
will help this bug to happen rarely or even at no times. Lower - I mean
- something lower than 50% avg CPU load on 1CPU server or 80% on 2+ CPU
server.
But that is only our hosting company workaround, not the solution.
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[2005-05-17 18:00:36] jspec at bellsouth dot net
My hosting company is unable to fix the random "Failed to initialize
storage module" error and it is making my account unusable. They
cannot seem to fix it. What is the story with this!?
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[2005-04-29 11:04:06] dmih at in-solve dot ru
Please kindly pay attention to this bug.
It is REAL bug, not fantasy of 100+ man. Random session handler error.
No Feedback status is surely lame for this, as you are getting
feedback.
There is no reproduce code because bug is "random bug under heavy load"
class.
We hope for you.
Thanks.
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[2005-04-08 19:03:08] todd dot trann at palidar dot com
RedHat 9
PHP 4.3.9 from RPM (php-4.3.9-11.rh90.art)
Zend Engine 1.3.0, Optimizer 2.5.5
I am experiencing the same problem: the error indicates storage module
"user", yet php.ini has it set to "files", and nowhere in my code do I
change it to "user".
The problem comes and goes as the page is reloaded. A PHP page with no
session code does not exhibit the problem.
My /tmp directory is world writable.
Todd
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