[pmwiki-users] odd error report

[Henrik Bechmann]

Thanks Patrick, good to know.

I've checked the tmp dir, and it has rights of 776.

The problem has since disappeared, so I'm putting down to a flaky 
webhost or some kind of server maintenance going on.

- Henrik

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 11:30:20AM -0400, Henrik Bechmann wrote:
>   
>> One of my authors reported the following (version 2.1.26):
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Some problem has got into the web home page: top of every page shows this:
>>
>> Warning: session_write_close(): 
>> open(/tmp/sess_ad06b97fe8aa2cbda863267ec31e2245, O_RDWR) failed: 
>> Read-only file system (30) in /var/www/html/common/wiki/pmwiki.php on 
>> line 1613
>> [...]
>> Any ideas?
>>     
>
> Ooooh, that's bad.  According to the error message, it looks as
> though your /tmp filesystem has somehow been mounted "read only",
> such that PHP is unable to write session files to the directory.
> But if /tmp truly is mounted read-only, then I suspect a lot more
> is breaking on the system than just PmWiki.
>
> One workaround might be to create a directory somewhere else for
> PHP to store its session files (give the directory 777 permissions),
> and then tell PHP to use that directory for storing session data:
>
>     session_save_path('/path/to/session/dir');
>
> Pm
>
>   

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