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Another mythweb php error

So after installing the php-pcre package, I restart httpd and reload the mythweb page and find another error message. Very similar to the first, but slightly different. "Fatal error: Call to undefine…

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So after installing the php-pcre package, I restart httpd and reload the mythweb page and find another error message. Very similar to the first, but slightly different. "Fatal error: Call to undefined function session_name() in /var/www/html/mythweb/includes/init.php on line 48" (At least we've made it to line 48...) Anyway, yes... there's a php-session package and no it's not installed (yet.) I'm a bit puzzled as to why 1) these two packages were not installed in the upgrade. 2) why mythweb didn't see those as prerequisites... Anyway....


The package is installed, httpd is restarted (service httpd restart). I'm not certain that's necessary, but suspect it would be. Now, I refresh the page and don't get any further php errors.