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Naturally I've looked and searched here but have found nothing related to this here problem I'm experiencing.

I get the following Error Message about 40% to 50% of the time since I've started using v8.4. I first updated from v.7 to each succesive version after that one and ended up cleaning out the old installation and directory completely and started over with v8.4 as a clean install with a database to boot.

It has become so frustrating to the point that I at times want to just say the heck with it and find some other blog software package but I figured I'd check here first and see if anyone has an any idea as to why this issue keeps coming up, mainly in the Admin panel but also from the blog itself. I use Ctrl F5 a lot but not to too much success:



Edit: Actually this problem started when I went from the last version of 7.1 to version 8.0, 8.1, 8.2. 8.3 and now 8.4 and has never gone away since.

The error message tells that your Server Provider is having problems.

It means that /tmp is either not writable or the disk space on your server's hard disc is used up. Forward this error to your Server Admin - it is entirely independent of Serendipity. Serendipity needs working PHP Session Support.

Regards,
Garvin

Thanks. I know for a fact that it isn't storage or transfer as I have 3g of storage and 30g of transfer (bandwidth) available to me at any given time. That's how much I rent on a monthly basis for my various endeavors. My shared server however has been experiencing massive DOS attacks off and on for awhile now I've been informed. That would help to explain then what is happening.

The storage space that has been given to you and the actual storage space that is available sometimes varies! It might be that some logging process is overrunning and making your server out of space, so you should definitely let that check.

A DOS can of course also be the reason of this - when many, many files are stored in /tmp it can happen that the OS does not allow the creation of a new file.

Regards,
Garvin