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My configure is: 
./configure --with-apache=../apache_1.3.26 --with-mysql=/usr/local 
 
I tried with the same configure and the same php.ini with other versions 
and in 4.1.2 i get the same result but in 4.0.6 it works fine. 
I think this is a bug in versions newer than php 4.0.6

Can you please provide a sample script and the session section of your php.ini file?

This is the session section of my php.ini: 
 
[Session] 
; Handler used to store/retrieve data. 
session.save_handler = files 
 
; Argument passed to save_handler.  In the case of files, this is the path 
; where data files are stored. Note: Windows users have to change this 
; variable in order to use PHP's session functions. 
session.save_path = /tmp 
 
; Whether to use cookies. 
session.use_cookies = 1 
 
 
; Name of the session (used as cookie name). 
session.name = PHPSESSID 
 
; Initialize session on request startup. 
session.auto_start = 0 
 
; Lifetime in seconds of cookie or, if 0, until browser is restarted. 
session.cookie_lifetime = 0 
 
; The path for which the cookie is valid. 
session.cookie_path = / 
 
; The domain for which the cookie is valid. 
session.cookie_domain = 
 
; Handler used to serialize data.  php is the standard serializer of PHP. 
session.serialize_handler = php 
 
; Percentual probability that the 'garbage collection' process is started 
; on every session initialization. 
session.gc_probability = 1 
 
; After this number of seconds, stored data will be seen as 'garbage' and 
; cleaned up by the garbage collection process. 
session.gc_maxlifetime = 1440 
; Check HTTP Referer to invalidate externally stored URLs containing ids. 
; HTTP_REFERER has to contain this substring for the session to be 
; considered as valid. 
session.referer_check = 
 
; How many bytes to read from the file. 
session.entropy_length = 0 
 
; Specified here to create the session id. 
session.entropy_file = 
 
;session.entropy_length = 16 
 
;session.entropy_file = /dev/urandom 
 
; Set to {nocache,private,public} to determine HTTP caching aspects. 
session.cache_limiter = nocache 
 
; Document expires after n minutes. 
session.cache_expire = 180 
 
; use transient sid support if enabled by compiling with 
--enable-trans-sid. 
session.use_trans_sid = 1 
 
url_rewriter.tags = "a=href,area=href,frame=src,input=src,form=fakeentry" 
 
 
And here  a sample of the code I am using. 
 
<?php 
        session_start(); 
        session_register('llenguaActual'); 
 
        $llenguaActual=$HTTP_GET_VARS['language']; 
        if (!isset($llenguaActual)) { 
                $llenguaActual="catala"; 
        } 
?>

I'm unable to reproduce.  You realize that A) session vars aren't written until you move to the next page, and B) register_globals is off now in PHP, right?

I have Register_Globals=on 
And when I access the page it creates the session file fine, but I get the 
errors in the logfile, and when  try to update the session data it does 
anything and I get the errors. 
Is a linux on a Playstation 2 with kernel 2.2.1 for PS2.

hi,

same problem here.

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=19022

Hi,

I ran into this trouble too. Usually, the session file is totally empty at the end of the page. It may also be totally erased, but this was much rarer, and may not be linked.

Yet, I think I found a workaround : 

I register a shutdown_function, and in this function, I do a sessions_write_close().

This made my life a lot better, and may point the place where the bugs live. 

function page_end(){
  session_write_close();
}

page_end('fin');

Please give the current HEAD CVS a try. Many session issues, most likely yours as well, have been addressed over the last few days.

http://snaps.php.net/

Thanks!

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php4-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php4-win32-latest.zip

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