Stuck at step 1 ... no reaction

[kwaywhite]

I am having the same trouble. I have read similar posts but no technical data was presented. Here is the technical data for my setup:

Installation Stalls at Basic Information

PHP Warning: Unknown: open(/var/php_sessions/sess_f5e8609cbc9b64cdfc4cfa0dbbc27205, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in Unknown on line 0 PHP Warning: Unknown: Failed to write session data (files). Please verify that the current setting of sessio 20130325T164204: www.lankford-group.com/installation/index.php PHP Warning: session_start(): open(/var/php_sessions/sess_f5e8609cbc9b64cdfc4cfa0dbbc27205, O_RDWR) failed: No such file or directory (2) in /hermes/bosweb/web068/b684/ipw.lankfordgroupcom/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/session.php on line 654

created /var/php_sessions directory.

Joomla! Instance :: Joomla! 3.0.3-Stable (Ember) 04-February-2013
Joomla! Platform :: Joomla Platform 12.2.0-Stable (Neil Armstrong) 21-September-2012
Joomla! Configured :: Not Found

Host Configuration :: OS: Linux | OS Version: 3.0.9-nx | Technology: i686 | Web Server: Apache/2 | Encoding: gzip, deflate | Doc Root: /home/users/web/b684/ipw.lankfordgroupcom/public_html | System TMP Writable: Yes

PHP Configuration :: Version: 5.3.13 | PHP API: cgi-fcgi | Session Path Writable: No | Display Errors: | Error Reporting: 22519 | Log Errors To: php_errors.log | Last Known Error: | Register Globals: | Magic Quotes: | Safe Mode: | Open Base: | Uploads: 1 | Max. Upload Size: 200M | Max. POST Size: 20M | Max. Input Time: 60 | Max. Execution Time: 120 | Memory Limit: 128M

MySQL Configuration :: Database Credentials incomplete or not available Nothing to display.
Missing credentials detected: Connection Type missing | MySQL Host missing | Table Prefix missing | Database Username missing | Database Password missing |

PHP Extensions :: Core (5.3.13) | date (5.3.13) | ereg () | libxml () | openssl () | pcre () | sqlite3 (0.7-dev) | zlib (1.1) | bcmath () | calendar () | ctype () | curl () | dba () | dom (20031129) | hash (1.0) | fileinfo (1.0.5-dev) | filter (0.11.0) | ftp () | gd () | gettext () | SPL (0.2) | iconv () | session () | json (1.2.1) | mbstring () | mcrypt () | mysql (1.0) | mysqli (0.1) | PDO (1.0.4dev) | pdo_mysql (1.0.2) | pdo_sqlite (1.0.1) | standard (5.3.13) | posix () | pspell () | Reflection ($Id: 522fef1e5100f848a5e2059d98b3a880a3143e9a $) | imap () | SimpleXML (0.1) | sockets () | Phar (2.0.1) | SQLite (2.0-dev) | exif (1.4 $Id$) | tokenizer (0.1) | wddx () | xml () | xmlreader (0.1) | xmlrpc (0.51) | xmlwriter (0.1) | xsl (0.1) | zip (1.9.1) | cgi-fcgi () | mhash () | Zend Engine (2.3.0) |
Potential Missing Extensions :: suhosin |

Switch User Environment (Experimental) :: PHP CGI: Yes | Server SU: Yes | PHP SU: Yes | Custom SU (LiteSpeed/Cloud/Grid): No
Potential Ownership Issues: Maybe

Core Folders :: images/ (755) | components/ (755) | modules/ (755) | plugins/ (755) | language/ (755) | templates/ (755) | cache/ (755) | logs/ (755) | tmp/ (755) | administrator/components/ (755) | administrator/modules/ (755) | administrator/language/ (755) | administrator/templates/ (755) |

Elevated Permissions (First 10) ::

Components :: SITE :: com_mailto (3.0.0) | com_wrapper (3.0.0) |
Components :: ADMIN :: com_cache (3.0.0) | com_media (3.0.0) | com_installer (3.0.0) | com_content (3.0.0) | com_newsfeeds (3.0.0) | com_banners (3.0.0) | com_plugins (3.0.0) | com_cpanel (3.0.0) | com_login (3.0.0) | com_finder (3.0.0) | com_config (3.0.0) | com_messages (3.0.0) | com_redirect (3.0.0) | com_search (3.0.0) | com_templates (3.0.0) | com_weblinks (3.0.0) | com_modules (3.0.0) | com_categories (3.0.0) | com_admin (3.0.0) | com_checkin (3.0.0) | com_languages (3.0.0) | com_joomlaupdate (3.0.0) | com_menus (3.0.0) | com_users (3.0.0) |

Modules :: SITE :: mod_random_image (3.0.0) | mod_login (3.0.0) | mod_articles_categories (3.0.0) | mod_articles_archive (3.0.0) | mod_users_latest (3.0.0) | mod_banners (3.0.0) | mod_footer (3.0.0) | mod_articles_popular (3.0.0) | mod_wrapper (3.0.0) | mod_articles_category (3.0.0) | mod_search (3.0.0) | mod_weblinks (3.0.0) | mod_feed (3.0.0) | mod_custom (3.0.0) | mod_articles_latest (3.0.0) | mod_articles_news (3.0.0) | mod_whosonline (3.0.0) | mod_menu (3.0.0) | mod_syndicate (3.0.0) | mod_stats (3.0.0) | mod_breadcrumbs (3.0.0) | mod_related_items (3.0.0) | mod_languages (3.0.0) | mod_finder (3.0.0) |
Modules :: ADMIN :: mod_toolbar (3.0.0) | mod_login (3.0.0) | mod_popular (3.0.0) | mod_submenu (3.0.0) | mod_stats_admin (3.0.0) | mod_logged (3.0.0) | mod_feed (3.0.0) | mod_custom (3.0.0) | mod_status (3.0.0) | mod_version (3.0.0) | mod_quickicon (3.0.0) | mod_menu (3.0.0) | mod_latest (3.0.0) | mod_title (3.0.0) | mod_multilangstatus (3.0.0) |

Plugins :: SITE :: plg_content_pagenavigation (3.0.0) | plg_content_loadmodule (3.0.0) | plg_content_vote (3.0.0) | plg_content_geshi (3.0.0) | plg_content_finder (3.0.0) | plg_content_emailcloak (3.0.0) | plg_content_joomla (3.0.0) | plg_content_pagebreak (3.0.0) | plg_quickicon_extensionupdate (3.0.0) | plg_quickicon_joomlaupdate (3.0.0) | plg_editors_codemirror (1.0) | plg_editors_tinymce (3.5.6) | plg_extension_joomla (3.0.0) | plg_user_profile (3.0.0) | plg_user_contactcreator (3.0.0) | plg_user_joomla (3.0.0) | plg_editors-xtd_image (3.0.0) | plg_editors-xtd_readmore (3.0.0) | plg_editors-xtd_article (3.0.0) | plg_editors-xtd_pagebreak (3.0.0) | plg_system_remember (3.0.0) | plg_system_highlight (3.0.0) | plg_system_cache (3.0.0) | plg_system_languagefilter (3.0.0) | plg_system_logout (3.0.0) | plg_system_log (3.0.0) | plg_system_p3p (3.0.0) | plg_system_sef (3.0.0) | plg_system_redirect (3.0.0) | plg_system_debug (3.0.0) | plg_system_languagecode (3.0.0) | plg_captcha_recaptcha (3.0.0) | plg_finder_content (3.0.0) | plg_finder_contacts (3.0.0) | plg_finder_weblinks (3.0.0) | plg_finder_categories (3.0.0) | plg_finder_newsfeeds (3.0.0) | plg_search_content (3.0.0) | plg_search_contacts (3.0.0) | plg_search_weblinks (3.0.0) | plg_search_categories (3.0.0) | plg_search_newsfeeds (3.0.0) | plg_authentication_gmail (3.0.0) | plg_authentication_ldap (3.0.0) | plg_authentication_joomla (3.0.0) |

Templates :: SITE :: beez3 (3.0.0) | protostar (1.0) |
Templates :: ADMIN :: isis (1.0) | hathor (3.0.0) |

[kwaywhite]

Ok, someone working on the account before me deleted the cgi-bin directory and the PHP.INI file's save_sessions_path was unset. I got that fixed. I will start a new topic on what happened next.