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  • I know this has been on here a ton of times but I was searching through the boards and tried a few things that people said and it did not work. I am a newbie too so I was hoping some one could help. I am using PostNuke .726-1 and the server I am using has: phpMyAdmin 2.4.0 , MySQL 4.0.17 , Red Hat Linux. As far as the rest of it I have checked a few CHMOD on stuff but again I am new and not sure what I am looking for half the time. If some one could help me with this Session initialisation failed issue it would totally make my day. Thanks again.

    Stew
  • what have you tried so far? Try using phpMyAdmin to repair the sessions table

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    Regards,
    Simon

    itbegins.co.uk - Zikula Consulting

    Please read the Support Guide
  • Lucky this thread was so handy - dropping the sessions table and restoring from my last backup worked like a charm.

    For further eduction though why does a working site's session table fail like that? I had that happen for the first time this afternoon - never before, with the site up for over a year.
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    For further eduction though why does a working site's session table fail like that?

    *distant memory possibly factually incorrect*

    Certain combinations of Apache and MySQL apparently cause a blip in MySQL sometimes, and if you have are reading from the sessions table at that time it can become corrupted, meaning new sessions cant be created for new visitors.

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    Regards,
    Simon

    itbegins.co.uk - Zikula Consulting

    Please read the Support Guide
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