[Bug 544516] New: cannot log into phpMyAdmin

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=544516 Summary: cannot log into phpMyAdmin Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.2 Version: Milestone 8 Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: Apache AssignedTo: bnc-team-apache@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: pat@indy.rr.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-135.2 Firefox/3.5.3 cannot log into phpMyAdmin. reports: 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. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.address: localhost/phpMyAdmin 2.insert user_name and password 3.receive error msg Actual Results: receive error msg: 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. Expected Results: access phpMyAdmin A recent update has made it impossible for me to connect to phpMyAdmin. I was previously able to connect, user_name and http_auth with password blank. Factory x86_64 11.2 M8 phpMyAdmin-3.2.2-1.1.noarch php5-5.3.0-1.6.x86_64 apache logs provide: 65.185.140.214 - [05/Oct/2009:14:08:14 -0400] "GET /phpMyAdmin/error.php?lang=en&dir=ltr&type=Error&error=%232002+-+The+server+is+not+re sponding+%28or+the+local+MySQL+server%27s+socket+is+not+correctly+configured%29 HTTP/1.1" 200 1164 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 SUSE/3.5.3-135.2 Firefox/3.5.3" I cannot tell which update has changed the conditions as I have not recently used the app. Finding my previous config failed, Ireplaced my old config.inc.php with the suggestion from the docs: <?php $i=0; $i++; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root'; $cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'cbb74bc'; // use here your password $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config'; ?> changing the user name and auth_type (http) and blanking the password. failure: 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. performed 'rcmysql reload' before each trial. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.