Title: Fatal error: cannot create references …user.php
Last modified: October 6, 2018

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# Fatal error: cannot create references …user.php

 *  [wperic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wperic/)
 * (@wperic)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-cannot-create-references-user-php/)
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘remember’ in /webroot/e/r/erics001/blog/www/wp-
   includes/user.php on line 39
 * Warning: Cannot assign an empty string to a string offset in /webroot/e/r/erics001/
   blog/www/wp-includes/user.php on line 39
 * Warning: Illegal string offset ‘user_login’ in /webroot/e/r/erics001/blog/www/
   wp-includes/user.php on line 54
 * Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Cannot create references to/from string offsets 
   in /webroot/e/r/erics001/blog/www/wp-includes/user.php:54 Stack trace: #0 /webroot/
   e/r/erics001/blog/www/wp-login.php(759): wp_signon(”, ”) #1 {main} thrown in /
   webroot/e/r/erics001/blog/www/wp-includes/user.php on line 54
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ffatal-error-cannot-create-references-user-php%2Fpage%2F2%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-cannot-create-references-user-php/page/2/#post-10775856)
 * No, do not delete wp-content. That’s all the stuff you uploaded.
 *  Thread Starter [wperic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wperic/)
 * (@wperic)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-cannot-create-references-user-php/page/2/#post-10775867)
 * All I have is the regular w-content/plugins directory. That now has just the 
   new plugins from my previous WP download. I’ve got a new download I did today(
   the other was last week) and I’ll try the steps again.
 * I’ve got a lot of old themes in the theme directory. Should I maybe delete all
   but twenty seventeen?
 *  Thread Starter [wperic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wperic/)
 * (@wperic)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-cannot-create-references-user-php/page/2/#post-10775885)
 * Looks like I’m in at at the new setup page. replacing the .php files at site 
   root seemed to do it.
 * Thanks.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-cannot-create-references-user-php/page/2/#post-10775885)
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