Session library throws exception indicating ignoring app's session storage configurat

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Session library throws exception indicating ignoring app's session storage configurat - saascoder - 05-19-2021

Hi everyone, been using code ignitor for a few years and love it. Still on v3. First post for me.

We are getting this error message, on an app that is configured to store sessions in the database.

Code:
Exception: session_start(): Failed to read session data: user (path: /var/lib/php/sessions) /var/www/html/system/libraries/Session/Session.php 143

The relevant configuration file (

Code:
application/config/config.php

) contains this entry (and no other entry for

Code:
'sess_driver'

Code:
$config['sess_driver'] = 'database';

This is happening in CodeIgniter

Code:
3.1.11

running on PHP

Code:
7.3.27

, Ubuntu

Code:
18.04.5 LTS

, and Apache

Code:
2.4.46

Since the app is configured to store session data in the database, and this seems to work almost all of the time, I think this is an intermittent bug in CodeIgniter.

The line where it's crashing is on a call to PHP's built-in

Code:
session_start

function. This happens after some code that calls

Code:
session_set_save_handler

. Based on my reading of this code, I would expect

Code:
session_set_save_handler

to have set up all of the required callbacks to ensure that

Code:
session_start

would succeed, and that does seem like what happens most of the time.

Has anyone else seen this bug? Are there any workarounds? Any other relevant information that I can gather?

RE: Session library throws exception indicating ignoring app's session storage configurat - InsiteFX - 05-19-2021

Try downloading the Developer version, some fixes around 2 months ago may solve your problem.

CodeIgniter 3.2 Development Version.