It might be the case that the plugin is not able to write the PHP session info (into the /var/lib/php/sessions directory ) because of permission issues, and hence it is failing at the authentication step.
Can you please make sure that the folder /var/lib/php/sessions has sufficient write permissions? You will need to assign the directory with the owner that has the appropriate write permissions.
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