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Hi,

Newbie to CiviCRM. (very first attempt...)

Trying the auto install.  Drupal 5.12, MySQL 5.0.67, PHP 5.2.6

Think I have the directories correct
(civicrm folder  in "drupalroot"/sites/all/modules)
(civicrm folder in "drupalroot"/files/   also crm_docs, templates_c, and upload subdirectories  (all chmod 777))

ran the autoinstall at:
/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/install/index.php

installer runs, asks for my civicrm and drupal database information and shows green (ok) to install.

press install button and ...

immediately get

<code>

Fatal error: session_start() [<a href='function.session-start'>function.session-start</a>]: Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: ) in /home/groupsal/public_html/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/install/index.php on line 560
</code>

any ideas?  anyone?

thanks

Thanks for the suggestion.

Actually I did google this for about 2 hours last nite before posting.

I can't see a relevant link in the results you've shown in your post.
They are mostly about old versions of php or platforms that I'm not using like Mambo.
And none are occuring on an install of CiviCRM.

Am I missing something that you're seeing or was this more of a generic suggestion?

Thanks

Thankyou Donald!

Does this need to point to the "tmp" directory in my drupal install root?

Or is it sufficient to point to some valid directory that would be generically satisfactory to a site admin?

My hosting admin is not likely to point his php.ini  to one of my directories on a shared hosting scenario.

Is this a problem?