I installed phpMyAdmin 4.0.4.1 on my local develop enviroment, I set auth_type to config. Also I provide authentication requirements by th
phpMyAdmin 4.0.4.1
auth_type
config
After doing all that was recommended here and in other places with no success, I found out that my /tmp was full.
To check it, just run from command line: df
df
It reports file system disk space usage.