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This article is only valid if you tried to swtich to PHP 7.3 on a cloudlinux system with php selector, in all other cases please look further as this error is common and can have many causes.

If you receive the error:

PHP Warning: session_start(): Failed to read session data: user (path: /opt/alt/php73/var/lib/php/session) in /home/xyxyx/public_html/libraries/joomla/session/handler/native.php on line 260

When switching to PHP 7.3 with PHP selector, its possible that you ran into a bug; the solution is in that case easy enough:

Make sure the system operator reloads the following:

yum install alt-php73-mysql-meta

then go to the LVE manager and enable MySQLi as module

client may need to go to PHP Selector and enable MySQLi there as well. 



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