[SOLVED]White screen instead of login page? Problem with making database connection?

[pgentoo]

Last night i took a clean image install of Gentoo 64bit, and did the prerequisite install from scratch. I then did the ispcp install from current SVN.

I'm still getting the same exact issue. It is not an issue with my mysql database, or php/apache, as i'm able to run phpmyadmin from http://myipaddresshere/tools/pma/ and login and manage my databases fine. I show that the ispcp database has only 32 records in it total, for a default install without awstats. Does this sound right?

I find this particularly interesting... If I load up the ispcp site (well, try to), it creates one session file with 0 bytes. If i load up phpmyadmin, then it creates another session file and is able to use it properly. When i examine the differences between these session files i see the following:

Code:

ispcp phptmp # ls -la
total 28
drwxrwxr-x  3 vu10000 apache  4096 Aug  1 14:13 .
dr-xr-xr-x 12 vu10000 apache  4096 Aug  1 13:29 ..
drwxrwxr-x  6 vu10000 apache  4096 Aug  1 12:00 .svn
-rw-------  1 apache  apache 13996 Aug  1 14:13 sess_0b4bc712acf94981bb487976e9376d7709423310
-rw-------  1 apache  apache     0 Aug  1 14:05 sess_378a782f16856623b37d9887594c4879

notice that the name of the one that is broken (ispcp) is way shorter than the other. Is it possible the session filename is getting truncated, so when it goes to use it it can't find a match?

Any ideas on how to fix this?