Greetings,
I've searched for CGI::Session problems, found quite a few, but not this particular one.

I've been using CGI::Session with CGI::Application successfully, but now trying to use mysql rather than files to store the data is causing problems.

I'm getting the following error
could not flush: Couldn't acquire lock on id '395c4f3fa5efe60d26082727de8bf6c7'. Lock status:  at Images.cgi line 0

The relevent bits of code are: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI::Session;
use DBI;

$datasource = 'dbi:mysql:database:hostname';
$user = 'username';
$pass = 'password';


$dbi = DBI->connect($datasource, $user, $pass,
                    { ShowErrorStatement => 1, 
                      RaiseError => 1,
                      PrintError => 1,
                      AutoCommit => 0}));


$session = new CGI::Session(
              "driver:MySQL", 
              $sid,
              {Handle => $dbh}
              ));

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I've tested logging into the database via a console and gaining a lock in the same way as CGI::Session::MySQL is doing select get_lock('unique', 10) and it succeeds ( so does release_lock.)

Does anyone know what's going wrong?

update:
I found this here:
I'm posting this so others may benefit from the clearing up of the confusion...
I was playing with a package to create MySQL tables, and the 'sessions' table created was not precisely as expected by CGI::Session.
- though it doesn't give any suggestions as to how to fix it.
I've dropped the table and recreated it using the exact code given in the CGI::Session docs, to no avail.

In reply to CGI::Session::MySQL lock problem by fireartist

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