[SM-USERS] More Info - Fatal error at login -- session_id/global.php

[Mike Oliveri]

Hello, I'm using SM 1.4.1 on FreeBSD 4.9 with PHP 4.3.6 and am getting the following error when attempting to get to the login screen. Fatal error: Call to undefined function: session_id() in /usr/local/www/data/webmail/functions/global.php on line 293   This started happening after a user opened their mailbox and received a message similar to  "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 4097 bytes) in ./mail/functions/imap_general.php on line 82" from the FAQ. Unfortunately they didn't write down the exact message.   At this point, SquirrelMail stopped working for everyone. Restarting Apache produced an error with a missing PHP file. To replace it, we upgraded PHP to 4.3.6 from the FreeBSD ports tree. This is when we started receiving the error related to the session_id above. A Google search turned up the following info:   http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user/17999   Apparently the error may be related to PHP compiling options, but unfortunately I don't know which options are selected when compiling PHP from the FreeBSD Ports tree with the default settings. I don't recall having to do any special configuration of PHP for FreeBSD for SquirrelMail, and I installed SquirrelMail from the Ports as well just to see if it would make a difference (it doesn't). Any ideas? I also tried using SM 1.4.3 from source in a separate directory and am receiving the same error message, so apparently it must have something to do with PHP. A document in the SquirrelMail FreeBSD Port suggested trying to set session.auto_start = 1 in php.ini if there are login difficulties, but this resulted in SquirrelMail outputing a blank HTML page. Viewing source shows nothing more than the HTML and BODY opening and closing tags. Thanks, Mike Oliveri Systems Administrator UTI Systems, Inc.