Rails - Apr 2006 - 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:in `transaction''
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session/pstore.rb:71:in `initialize''
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/cgi/session.rb:273:in `initialize''
/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:in
`stale_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:in
`assign_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:in
`process_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:in
`process''
/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

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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.

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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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