Cron run fails
b_f - May 11, 2007 - 22:12
I cannot run cron. When I click the button under the Status Report page to run cron.php, I get the message:
Cron run failed
with no further information. I have tried increasing the timeout in the php file, set_time_limit, but this results in either a 404 or the same unhelpful error message.
I have no idea why this is happening. I installed the Location module earlier today, and created some nodes with location information. This may be what causes the problem, but even when I disable Location I still get the error.
Please help,
-Ben
Me too
I'm getting the same problem. I upgraded to Drupal 5.1 from 4.7.4 a while ago, noticed there were a few problems with cron and search but ignored them being too busy to investigate.
Today I noticed that the search database tables were missing, so I created them. Then I went to run cron and got that same unhelpful message. I can't find any solutions.... does anyone know why it might fail or how to track down the reason, and how to fix it?
Me too
I have the same problem.
I'm hosting on Open Source Host. I tried to set up my cron tab as such:
mywget -O - -q http://calendar.cplaction.org/cron.php
And it wasn't been working (at least for the search module).
I'd initially run the cron job manually and it worked fine. So I went back and tried to run it manually again on to get the "Cron run failed" message.
I don't think I installed any new modules (I un-installed Calendar). Lots of view customization, theme changes and stuff but no new installs.
Any ideas? Thanks
Check the logs! The cron
Check the logs! The cron task may be in fact running but has not finished; If you click to run the cron job manually again the log page will show an error stating that the cron job was aready running if this is the case.
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cron failed error message
Thanks; I checked my logs and I was manually trying to run Cron while it was already running.
Cron timeout error?
Why would this happen? What does cron get hung up on. Oh thanks afrey, I got the cron run failed also, and it was what you said it was.
Thanks,
Greg