codeigniter 4.1.8 - Session: Initialization under CLI aborted.

Maybe this is too late but in case anyone might come across to this problem, "Session: Initialization under CLI aborted." implies that your application is  autoloading the session library while you are  using CLI. @paulbalandan is right that you can't really access Session in CLI. In my case, I needed the Session to be auto-loaded, so I had to exclude the controller that was used for CLI access from the Before Filters. Hope this helps and still relevant.

You're brilliant Engel!  That's an excellently elegant work-around!  Thanks.