WampServer

Hello, I hope someone can help with this problem.


Intermittently my phpMyAdmin won't start. I get the following error message displayed.

Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly (highlighted in a red background).

This happens despite making no changes to the setup of mySql, PHP or apache.


I might start phpMyAdmin from my wampserver icon check a database, go back to some coding and then when I try and log back in later get the above error message.


I have the following message in my mysql.log

100828 10:10:31 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events
100828 10:10:31 InnoDB: Starting shutdown...
100828 10:10:32 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 46409
100828 10:10:32 [Warning] Forcing shutdown of 1 plugins
100828 10:10:32 [Note] wampmysqld: Shutdown complete

100828 10:10:32 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
100828 10:10:33 InnoDB: Started; log sequence number 0 46409
100828 10:10:33 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events
100828 10:10:33 [Note] wampmysqld: ready for connections.
Version: '5.1.36-community-log' socket: '' port: 3306 MySQL Community Server (GPL)


This message occurs frequently. Perhaps it is related to this but I couldn't find any people reporting the same problem as I have related to this?

Here is the access.log for my latest successful login:
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Aug/2010:10:39:02 +0100] "GET /phpmyadmin/print.css HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Aug/2010:10:39:02 +0100] "GET /phpmyadmin/themes/original/img/logo_right.png HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Aug/2010:10:39:02 +0100] "GET /phpmyadmin/themes/original/img/b_help.png HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Aug/2010:10:39:02 +0100] "GET /phpmyadmin/themes/original/img/s_warn.png HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Aug/2010:10:39:02 +0100] "GET /phpmyadmin/themes/original/img/s_notice.png HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Aug/2010:10:39:19 +0100] "POST /phpmyadmin/index.php HTTP/1.1" 302 -
127.0.0.1 - - [28/Aug/2010:10:39:19 +0100] "GET /phpmyadmin/error.php?lang=en&dir=ltr&type=Error&error=Cannot+start+session+without+errors%2C+please+check+errors+given+in+your+PHP+and%2For+webserver+log+file+and+configure+your+PHP+installation+properly. HTTP/1.1" 200 1209

Thanks,
Tim.

Do u have another mysql installed maybe ?

It maybe interfere.

But also try delete the sessions in c:/wamp/temp

Steven Martin
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Thanks for the tip. Clearing tmp of the sessions has allowed me back in again.


For information, I only have one installation of mysql, although I have uninstalled and reinstalled it a few times. Do uninstals of mysql leave any registry entries behind, or anything else, that might cause a problem if the above trick doesn't work next time?

Thanks,
Tim.

OK clearing the tmp folder of sessions worked before but alas it hasn't worked since.

Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Tim.

PS. Are there any error logs that I've missed? I would have thought there would be an error message somewhere that might point me in the right direction?