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session start fatal error sqlite

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  1. Cristi4n

    Cristi4n Well-Known Member
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    Hello,

    I have several cPanel installed on a VPS node.
    The problem is that my clients cannot use cPanel's phpmyadmin, they get the following error:

    Warning: session_start() [function.session-start]: SQLite: failed to open/create session database `/var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions/phpsess.sdb' - malformed database schema - unable to open a temporary database file for storing temporary tables in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/libraries/session.inc.php on line 86

    Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: sqlite (path: /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions/phpsess.sdb) in /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/phpMyAdmin/libraries/session.inc.php on line 86

    I downloaded the latest phpMyAdmin and replace the one installed on a cPanel but still the same result.
    Can anyone give me a hint or anything that I can try to see where the problem is ?

    Thank you!
     
    #1 Cristi4n, May 11, 2008
  2. Cristi4n

    Cristi4n Well-Known Member
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    I have change the directory where phpmyadmin will store the session files but this is only a temporary solution, can anyone please look at this and let me know what can I do ?
    I have Virtuozzo 4 and centos 5 installed. cPanel is current, I saw in changelog that the session handler is now sqlite and for some reason it does not work for me.

    Thank you!
     
    #2 Cristi4n, May 11, 2008
  3. Cristi4n

    Cristi4n Well-Known Member
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    Of course, none of the applications/scripts that have been changed to use sqlite for storing sessions does not work (eg. Horde also).
     
    #3 Cristi4n, May 12, 2008
  4. cPanelKenneth

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    Are you using the standard internal PHP binary that cPanel provides?

    If so, what does this output:

    /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -i | grep -i sqlit


    Also, what are the permissions on /var/cpanel/userhomes/<name>/sessions ?
     
    #4 cPanelKenneth, May 12, 2008
  5. Cristi4n

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    I have a single VPS with a custom php, the rest are standard. They all have the same problem.
    The permissions are ok, if I remove phpsess.sdb it will create it again, I even changed the permissions of /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions to be world writable but had no effect, same error.

    /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -i | grep -i sqlit

    SQLite 2.0-dev
    SQLite Library 2.8.17

    Permissions for sessions:
    drwx------ 2 <name> <name>
     
    #5 Cristi4n, May 12, 2008
  6. cPanelKenneth

    cPanelKenneth cPanel Development
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    To ensure I understand, when you state "a custom php", do you mean you customized /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php ?


    With a stock install, on a Xen guest, here's what /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -i | grep -i sqlit reveals:

    Code:
    c4xen ~ # /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -i | grep -i sqlit
<tr><td class="e">PDO drivers </td><td class="v">sqlite2, sqlite </td></tr>
<h2><a name="module_pdo_sqlite">pdo_sqlite</a></h2>
<tr class="h"><th>PDO Driver for SQLite 3.x</th><th>enabled</th></tr>
<tr><td class="e">PECL Module version </td><td class="v">(bundled) 1.0.1 $Id: pdo_sqlite.c,v 1.10.2.6.2.2 2007/03/23 14:30:00 wez Exp $ </td></tr>
<tr><td class="e">SQLite Library </td><td class="v">3.3.17 </td></tr>
<tr><td class="e">Registered save handlers </td><td class="v">files user sqlite  </td></tr>
<h2><a name="module_SQLite">SQLite</a></h2>
<tr class="h"><th>SQLite support</th><th>enabled</th></tr>
<tr><td class="e">PECL Module version </td><td class="v">2.0-dev $Id: sqlite.c,v 1.166.2.13.2.9 2007/05/19 17:58:22 iliaa Exp $ </td></tr>
<tr><td class="e">SQLite Library </td><td class="v">2.8.17 </td></tr>
<tr><td class="e">SQLite Encoding </td><td class="v">iso8859 </td></tr>
<tr><td class="e">sqlite.assoc_case</td><td class="v">0</td><td class="v">0</td></tr>
...
c4xen ~ # /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php -v 
PHP 5.2.3 (cgi) (built: Aug 29 2007 15:37:39)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies


    Are the /var/cpanel/userhomes directories set to the proper owners?
     
    #6 cPanelKenneth, May 12, 2008
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    I have not changed /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php.
    I thought you were referring to the installed php on the system.
    Anyway I have some other VPS in Virtuozzo that have nothing changed on them, standard with a centos 5 template.

    Here is the full Output:

    Regarding sessions the owner and group is cpanelphpmyadmin and for horde cpanelhorde, i guess the permissions are right.

    I have cPanel installed also on some other dedicated servers and everything seems to work fine. The error message seems to appear only on vps. I have compared the VPS with a dedicated server, everything seems to be the same.
     
    #7 Cristi4n, May 12, 2008
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    Does the /var/cpanel/usecpphp file exist?
     
    #8 cPanelKenneth, May 12, 2008
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    Yes, it does:

    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 9 16:42 /var/cpanel/usecpphp
     
    #9 Cristi4n, May 12, 2008
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    #10 cPanelKenneth, May 12, 2008
  11. Cristi4n

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    done, thank you!
     
    #11 Cristi4n, May 12, 2008
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    Any update on it ? A customer reported the same issue on a virtuozzo vps as well...
    It's running WHM 11.23.0 cPanel 11.23.1-C24255 on a FEDORA 4 i686

    Thank you :)
     
    #12 yapluka, May 12, 2008
  13. shammi1234

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    In the mean time, you can set the session handlers as files, instead of sqlite and specify another path for the file storage.

    It worked for me.
     
    #13 shammi1234, May 12, 2008
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    Am having this issue with one VPS as well. It is running the latest EDGE release.
     
    #14 net-trend, May 12, 2008
  15. cPanelKenneth

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    Check the output of the 'mount' command. If it looks like this:

    Code:
    c4xen bin # mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,usrquota)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
/tmp on /var/tmp type none (rw,noexec,nosuid,bind)

    Then the problem is solved by doing this:

    Code:
    umount -l /tmp

    If that is not your problem, then please open a support ticket at https://tickets.cpanel.net/submit/

    Mark the ticket ATTN: QA SQLite


    Thank you.
     
    #15 cPanelKenneth, May 13, 2008
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    I had this happen today on a xen VPS

    WHM 11.23.0 cPanel 11.23.1-R24909
    CENTOS Enterprise 5 i686 on xen - WHM X v3.1.0

    umount -l /tmp did solve the problem, but will it just return on each remount of /tmp ?
     
    #16 mitgib, May 31, 2008
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    In my VPS I try this

    1. Change in php.ini the mysql.default_socket to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
    2. Create /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions/phpsess.sdb
    3. Change to 777 /var/cpanel/userhomes/cpanelphpmyadmin/sessions/phpsess.sdb
     
    #17 gara, Jun 4, 2008
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    Try this:

    /scripts/cleanphpsessions



    * I'm not sure if this made it in to RELEASE yet, but I know it works on EDGE/CURRENT.
     
    #18 cPanelNick, Jun 4, 2008
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    Neither of those work for me....
     
    #19 deanstev, Jun 5, 2008
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    I don't have anything in /var/cpanel/userhomes/
     
    #20 deanstev, Jun 5, 2008
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