On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Jean-Francois wrote:

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> It looks like right after installing there is a problem :
> 
> at http://<localhost>/phpMyAdmin/index.php : a red line with
> "phpMyAdmin - Erreur"
> "Erreur lors du do?=marrage de la session, veuillez vo?=rifier les erreurs
> indiquo?=es par PHP ou dans le fichier to?=moin du serveur web, et configurer
> PHP
> correctement."
> 
> Then from apache error log :
> 
> [Wed Apr 15 00:17:04 2009] [error] PHP Warning:  session_start() [<a
> href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]:
> open(/tmp//sess_kt447gtf9i2qj3f74b3jve2abdf8fgi8, O_RDWR) failed: Permission
> denied (13) in /phpMyAdmin/libraries/session.inc.php on line 87
> [Wed Apr 15 00:17:04 2009] [error] PHP Warning:  Unknown:
> open(/tmp//sess_kt447gtf9i2qj3f74b3jve2abdf8fgi8, O_RDWR) failed: Permission
> denied (13) in Unknown on line 0
> [Wed Apr 15 00:17:04 2009] [error] PHP Warning:  Unknown: Failed to write
> session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of
> session.save_path is correct () in Unknown on line 0
> 
> I made the sym link as stated - did I miss something ?
> What are basic tests to find the root ?
> any idea ?

You need to give write permissions to your webserver on the 
/var/www/tmp directory.

-- 
Antoine