Re: PHP Fatal error: Unable to start session mm module in Unknown on line 0

[Matthew Daubenspeck <matt@oddprocess.org>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:22:22AM -0700, Maria Garcia Suarez wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I'm using the Apache and PHP4 packages in Woody and my
> Apache doesn't want to load. When I load it the system
> says:
> 
> /etc/init.d/apache start
> 
> Starting web server: apache
> PHP Fatal error:  Unable to start session mm module in
> Unknown on line 0
> failed
> 
> I've browser around and some people propose:
> echo "33554432" > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
> but it doesn't work for me.... (I even tried with
> greater numbers).
> 
> Some others propose to delete /tmp/session_mm.sem but
> I don't have that file.

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Check out /etc/php4/apache/php.ini

Search for session.save_handler and try setting it to files instead of
mm

Then restart apache.