"Storage Module" Initialization Problem

Okay, I am using a web host that has squirrel mail working, as well as
Drupal. However, I am trying to install my own version of squirrel mail.

Both Drupal and Squirrelmail seem to rely on the same start_session() and
both share the same php.ini. However, I get the dreaded
"Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module" error.

I have seen hundreds of similar errors cited when I Google, yet I see no
serious documentation to solve it. Can anybody provide me with a solution?
Why do two separate PHP web apps work and another does not?

With total disregard for any kind of safety measures Ameen Dausha
<groups@dausha.net> leapt forth and uttered:

> Okay, I am using a web host that has squirrel mail working, as
> well as Drupal. However, I am trying to install my own version
> of squirrel mail.
>
> Both Drupal and Squirrelmail seem to rely on the same
> start_session() and both share the same php.ini. However, I get
> the dreaded "Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize
> storage module" error.
>
> I have seen hundreds of similar errors cited when I Google, yet
> I see no serious documentation to solve it. Can anybody provide
> me with a solution? Why do two separate PHP web apps work and
> another does not?
>

It's entirely possible that they use a custom session data handler
that stores the session information in some other medium than the
server filesystem (which is the default behaviour)

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Fi Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:13:15 -0600, Phil Roberts Qal:

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> It's entirely possible that they use a custom session data handler
> that stores the session information in some other medium than the
> server filesystem (which is the default behaviour)

True, but then my install of Drupal would misbehave, wouldn't it? This is
why I scratch my head and bang it against the wall--on product works fine,
but SM keeps hitting a PHP bug that is alleged to happen intermittently at
best.