friend says:

so my sites just went down for a while, and when they came back up, this appears on my vanilla board:

Warning: session_start(): open(/tmp/sess_80e59cc58beb5c8a171cfbafe8a70aa3, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php on line 63

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cookie - headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php:63) in /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php on line 63

Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php:63) in /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php on line 63

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php:63) in /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/extensions/WhosOnline-1.0.6.php on line 127

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php:63) in /home/xxx/xxx/xxx.com/xxx/library/Vanilla.Session.class.php on line 27

the first thing i tried was resetting the CHMOD for the directory and the Vanilla.Session.class.php file, but that didn't change anything. then i tried restoring my database to an older one, but that also didn't change anything.

i think some temp file i cannot access is b0rked, am i somewhat right on this?

what could i do to fix this?

Oh, and it's a Dreamhost account.

[on a side note, Mark, if you can add skurk from YH as a user here, he'd appreciate it, as it's his problem currently and he's not approved as a member yet]

Seems to be a lot of this going around for some reason or another on dreamhost specificly, lament. I think they've up and changed something in either their version of php, apache or mysql which has caused this. I think it's time to poll the consensus of dreamhost users here running vanilla and have them all see if their once working install is now fubar for no reason.

From the quick looks of it, it appears that it's unable to store and retrieve a session data, are you experiencing this under all accounts or just a specific one? Write out a trouble ticket and ask if they've changed anything in their setup (nicely) and inquire that you had a working application which is now no longer working. Best answer is directly from the source to see what they did and what we may need to do in order to correct other possible problems.

My vanilla forum on Dreamhost is working fine, as is a couple others on YH (somakitty's).

but there are some that are having the same error.

reference thread

Here is an example of an almost identical error in another application. The final comment is the one you want to read:

Tehere are some possible sources of your problem:

- the "/tmp" folder does not exist

- the user you are using for runnig Apache does not have the writing rights on "/tmp" folder

You should verify these.