By djan on

Hi, im running Drupal 6.19.

Today, when i click "run cron manually" in "Status report", i get the following red message "Cron run failed." In "Recent log entries" i see a warning "Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running." How can i solve this? Thanks in advance.

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Drave Robber commented

This topic has been discussed over and over...

Found 24405 results containing the words: Cron run failed.

Basically, you have to delete cron_semaphore from the variables table to allow it to run; if the problem repeats, investigate which module is causing it (search indexing or sitemap generation settings may need to be lowered).

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djan commented

Thanks, i deleted "cron_semaphore". It works now. Is it a problem the row "cron_semaphore" is now missing?

Drave Robber’s picture

Drave Robber commented

No, it exists only while cron is running.

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Aple commented

This worked perfectly. Apache crashed while running cron which is what caused mine to start failing. Glad this is common and an easy fix. ;)

Drave Robber’s picture

Drave Robber commented

Recently, someone even wrote a module to do this.

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djan commented

thanks