Session initialisation failed post nuke error

[david510]

Hello,

When I installed the postnuke through the cpanel, it is showing the error 'Session initialisation failed' . Please help me witht his issue. Is there any seetings I have to change in the php.ini file?

Regards,
David

[Infopro]

Try running a repair on the DB via phpMyAdmin.

[Sash]

Same problem...were you able to fix it?

Mike

[webits]

I've been looking for fix for this with no luck..

[gupi]

Back-up your database.

Then check for the table called pn_session_info in phpMyAdmin, and most probably you'll see is dead,
Delete it and re-create it from the sql source.

DROP TABLE `pn_session_info`;

--
-- Table structure for table `pn_session_info` (PostNuke 0.7.6 RC1)
-- should be the same with PostNuke 0.7.5
--
CREATE TABLE `pn_session_info` (
  `pn_sessid` varchar(32) NOT NULL default '',
  `pn_ipaddr` varchar(20) NOT NULL default '',
  `pn_firstused` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `pn_lastused` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `pn_uid` int(11) NOT NULL default '0',
  `pn_vars` blob,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`pn_sessid`)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

That's all.

[Sash]

Thanks, but that didn't fix the problem. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

Thanks
Mike

[Murtaza_t]

If the dropping and recreating of session_info table dint work then you should look for this :

Check for session.autostart in your php.ini file and make sure that it has been set to off

php_flag session.auto_start off

Way to go !!

[Matnet]

i faced the same problem.. plz assist. to settle down the postnuke preinstalled script.

[david510]

Hello,

I solved this by copying a default php.ini file from another server and restarting apache.