Title: Complete scan duration
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Complete scan duration

 *  Resolved [mirceadia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirceadia/)
 * (@mirceadia)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-scan-duration/)
 * Hi, I just downloaded your plugin.
    The quick scan works. The Complete scan never
   really finishes… it just sits on scanning at 0%. It says 3 Seconds Elapsed and
   Calculating Time Remaining after 10 hours of scanning. Any ideas please?
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 *  Plugin Author [Eli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/)
 * (@scheeeli)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-scan-duration/#post-4743581)
 * I would guess that there is either another plugin or theme that is corrupting
   the output buffer, or a recursive symlink in the scan path.
 * Are you getting a warning about “output buffer handlers”?
 * Does the message above the progress bar change at least once every 30 seconds,
   or is it stuck on Preparing a specific folder?
 * You could try just scanning the plugins to see if you get a different result.
 * If your browser has a debug feature you could check the page for JavaScript errors.
 * If you’re still really stuck your can email me directly, send me your WP Admin
   login and I’ll have a look at it in a few hours:
    eli AT gotmls DOT net
 *  Thread Starter [mirceadia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mirceadia/)
 * (@mirceadia)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-scan-duration/#post-4743602)
 * Thank you Eli for the quick reply.
 * There wasn’t any warning.
    The message above the progress bar changes, actually
   the path slowly changes. Scanning the plugins performed the same way. I’m not
   very familiar with JavaScript. I emailed you my info.
 * Thank you
 *  Plugin Author [Eli](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scheeeli/)
 * (@scheeeli)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-scan-duration/#post-4743854)
 * Just updating this topic with the resolution in case it could help anyone else.
 * The problem was that the server is trying to write a session file to the “tmp”
   directory and when it fails it’s throwing a Warning to the browser that breaks
   the page.
 * <b>Warning</b>: Unknown: open(/tmp/sess_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, O_RDWR) failed:
   No such file or directory (2) in <b>Unknown</b> on line <b>0</b>
 * You can see these errors on almost every page. There are 3 solution to this problem:
   
   1. You can turn off display_errors or error_reporting in your php.ini 2. You 
   can fix the permissions on that tmp folder so that your webserver can write to
   it 3. You can set the session.save_path toa directory that your server can write
   to
 * I fixed the error by adding error_reporting(0); to the top of my plugin. There
   may still be a problem with the server storing sessions on that site but at least
   the errors are suppressed so my plugin can scan the site.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/complete-scan-duration/#post-4743854)
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