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I've been using my geeklog site for a while with PHP 4.4.7 on my host. The host offers the ability to switch between 4.4.7 and 5.2.2. I host a vbulletin forum on the same server, and for a plugin I was installing, I needed to switch my php version to 5.2.2. So, I did. When I did this, geeklog kicked back an error message when trying to view my page. It went away when I switched back to 4.4.7.

The error states

"An error has occurred:
2 - session_start() [function.session-start]: open(/var/php_sessions/sess_5d773ee0e5a1f2c6ea640e873e91ed10, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) @ /*******I REMOVED THIS INFO******/plugins/captcha/functions.inc line 49"

The thing that worries me is, it displays my database name, and password, and other server information to the public. So the balance is either being able to use my vbulletin plugin, or being able to use geeklog.

I haven't really investigated the issue yet. I wanted to see if this problem has occurred before and see if there's an easy fix for it.

Thanks.

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I leave carnage in my wake.

Jay,

This error mesage is caused by the CAPTCHA plugin, it is trying to start a PHP session and it appears your PHP environment is not properly setup so the session fails.

Two solutions:

1. Fix the PHP setup so PHP can create and use session files. You'll probably need to get your hosting provider to take care of this.

2. Upgrade the CAPTCHA plugin to the latest. The latest version of CAPTCHA, available from www.gllabs.org no longer uses PHP sessions, so upgrading will also solve the problem.

Thanks!
Mark

There should be a note in that dump somewhere that this information is only displayed to Root users (i.e. Geeklog Site Admins). Unless you've set $_CONF['rootdebug'] = true, which you really shouldn't do on a "live" system.

In other words: Under normal circumstances, this information will not be displayed to unauthorized visitors.

bye, Dirk