Actually, at first it wouldn’t allow me to install phpmyadmin because it only had version 5.1.6 so I upgraded to php-mysql 5.2.10-1.el5.centos and was able to install fine.
The issue occurred both before and after the upgrade.
phpMyAdmin - Error
Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.
The apache log shows the last 20 errors…
[Mon Apr 19 01:48:53 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/home/promaxia.biz/tmp/sess_26af00itslij66ffoe6se03r34, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 01:48:53 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/promaxia.biz/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 01:50:29 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/home/promaxia.biz/tmp/sess_8s4guqdib1cg8n5tan0361dgh0, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 01:50:29 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/promaxia.biz/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 12:53:43 2010] [error] [client 173.212.245.98] File does not exist: /home/promaxia.biz/public_html/robots.txt
[Mon Apr 19 13:50:03 2010] [error] [client 95.211.132.69] File does not exist: /home/promaxia.biz/public_html/administrator
[Mon Apr 19 13:50:04 2010] [error] [client 95.211.132.69] File does not exist: /home/promaxia.biz/public_html/site
[Mon Apr 19 13:50:04 2010] [error] [client 95.211.132.69] File does not exist: /home/promaxia.biz/public_html/cms
[Mon Apr 19 13:50:05 2010] [error] [client 95.211.132.69] File does not exist: /home/promaxia.biz/public_html/content
[Mon Apr 19 13:50:05 2010] [error] [client 95.211.132.69] File does not exist: /home/promaxia.biz/public_html/Joomla
[Mon Apr 19 15:04:12 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/home/promaxia.biz/tmp/sess_kh7q6crh4o878i89p1icpd2tj4, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:04:12 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/promaxia.biz/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:04:12 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/home/promaxia.biz/tmp/sess_kh7q6crh4o878i89p1icpd2tj4, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:04:12 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/promaxia.biz/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:04:40 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/home/promaxia.biz/tmp/sess_qehueg3soerrivqjua9mvevvt4, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:04:40 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/promaxia.biz/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:04:57 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/home/promaxia.biz/tmp/sess_i8od52541p8hlmdqqjuj39a453, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:04:57 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/promaxia.biz/tmp) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:05:14 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/home/promaxia.biz/tmp/sess_1jkvpthorp416ahdp7gd9oasq3, O_RDWR) failed: Permission denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
[Mon Apr 19 15:05:14 2010] [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of session.save_path is correct (/home/promaxia.biz/tmp) in Unknown on line 0