Permission denied creating ruby sessions

My code was working, and I upgraded to Rails 1.1, and it seemed to be
working after that, but then I suddenly started seeing the following
error:

Permission denied -
/home/will/office/public/…/config/…/tmp/sessions//ruby_sess.c7da2e7df8df77df
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:289:in initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/pstore.rb:289:intransaction’
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:71:in initialize' /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session.rb:273:ininitialize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:111:in
session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:141:instale_session_check!’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/cgi_process.rb:107:in
session' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/base.rb:885:inassign_shortcuts_without_flash’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/flash.rb:141:in
assign_shortcuts' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/base.rb:373:inprocess_without_filters’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:364:in
process_without_session_management_support' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.0/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:inprocess’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.0/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in
`dispatch’
/home/will/office/public/dispatch.cgi:10Loaded suite
/home/will/office/public/dispatch.cgi
Started

Finished in 0.000278 seconds.

0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors


No session file ever gets created in /tmp, but the permissions should be
fine – /tmp is writable.

I am running apache2 on gentoo linux and I have the problem whether or
not I use cgi or fast_cgi, but I don’t have the problem when I use
webbrick.

Has anyone else seen this? I am struggling.

Will wrote:

My code was working, and I upgraded to Rails 1.1, and it seemed to be
working after that, but then I suddenly started seeing the following
error:

Permission denied -
/home/will/office/public/…/config/…/tmp/sessions//ruby_sess.c7da2e7df8df77df


No session file ever gets created in /tmp, but the permissions should be
fine – /tmp is writable.

I am running apache2 on gentoo linux and I have the problem whether or
not I use cgi or fast_cgi, but I don’t have the problem when I use
webbrick.

Has anyone else seen this? I am struggling.

Rails 1.1 (by default, maybe this is configurable) is writing sessions
to $RAILS_ROOT/tmp/sessions not /tmp/sessions. The first time I ran
rails update this directory was not created, although it was the second
time. Anyway, create /home/will/office/public/…/config/…/tmp/sessions
with correct permissions and you should be ok.

Ray

it’s a hack, but set the permissions on directories within /tmp to be
extremely loose…i.e. chmod 777 *

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