Notice: session_start() [function.session-start]: ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir(/tmp)

Question

No problems ,but sometimes i getting error on top of the page:

Notice: session_start() [function.session-start]: ps_files_cleanup_dir: opendir(/tmp) failed: Permission denied (13) in /home/xxxxx/xxxxx/mysite.com/public_html/qa-include/qa-app-users.php on line 107

It happens after migrating to another server.

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I google it, seems rare problem and realy annoying :(

Answer 1

I did some more searching and came across this Stack Overflow thread. The answer is apparently to set session.gc_probability = 0 in your php.ini.

I've done this on my server, I'll let you know how it goes.

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Nice, let me know :)

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By the way, the above solution is for Ubuntu/Debian operating systems. Do you know what type of server you run?

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centos, i guess it's not ubuntu.

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Note that "gc_probability" means the probability for the garbage collection. Isn't it the case when setting it to "0" that there is no garbage collection?

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@q2apro No. See the Stack Overflow answer - Ubuntu/Debian run garbage collection as a separate process instead of using PHP.

Answer 2

This looks like a general PHP configuration problem rather than something specific to Q2A.

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Maybe you know more specifically where in PHP configuration, i have dedicated server with DirectAdmin so i can configure PHP settings ?

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I contacted with hosting provider specialist and we reviewed PHP configuration and it's ok (/tmp is writable), so he said that problem is in script.

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I am getting the same error occasionally too. Did you manage to fix this?

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No, that line still appears sometimes.