[Resolved] session_start fails after upgrading to php 4.3.2

tharkun92

Hi
I recently upgraded from php 4.0.3 to php 4.3.2 and I can't open any session now because session_start() fails, saying:
"session_start(): read failed: Value too large for specified data type (75)".
I don't undersand what's going on, the call to the function is at the very beginning of my code:

<? 
ob_start();
session_start();

Please give me a hint!
Thanks in advance and sorry if my english is not so good 🙂

tsinka

Please post the php.ini (renamed to php.txt since phpbuilder doesn't allow you to post .ini files). You can attach the file to your post.

tsinka

Seems to be a file system problem. Is the temp directory you configured to be used to store the session data mounted via nfs or something like that (in most cases this error appears if a file hits e.g. the 2GB file limit but I never saw a session file to grow up to 2G😎 ?

tharkun92

Thanks for replying tsinka 🙂
Unfortunately I am can't login to my server this week end but I will post the php.ini file on monday.

tharkun92

Here it is, I post my php.ini.
However it looks like a common config file...
The sessions are stored in /tmp which has 500 Mo of free space and it is not mounted via nfs...
It works fine with a previous version of php/apache so I don't think that disk space matters here
🙂

tharkun92

I upgraded to mysql 4.0.13 and the problem mysteriously disappeared...

I found that my old mysql 3.22.32 is no longer supported by the latests releases of php and I guess this was the cause of my trouble.

By the way, thanks for helping!