Using WP-Cron PHP CLI generated Fetal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function

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Hello:

In order to alleviate work on my Websites, I use the crontab to run wp-cron.php user www. Using PHP 7.4.20 (cli). The following error is generated:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function MainWP\Dashboard\session_write_close() in /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/class/class-mainwp-utility.php:242
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/class/class-mainwp-sync.php(65): MainWP\Dashboard\MainWP_Utility::end_session()
#1 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/class/class-mainwp-system-cron-jobs.php(574): MainWP\Dashboard\MainWP_Sync::sync_site()
#2 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(292): MainWP\Dashboard\MainWP_System_Cron_Jobs->cron_updates_check()
#3 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(316): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#4 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-includes/plugin.php(551): WP_Hook->do_action()
#5 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-cron.php(138): do_action_ref_array()
#6 {main}
  thrown in /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/class/class-mainwp-utility.php on line 242

Has anyone seen this error and have an idea on how to fix it?

Thanks,
T

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Could you do a crontab -l and post the output here?

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Can you please try this version and see if it works better:

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Hello @rhoekman I am running this from the system crontab /etc/crontab. So,

root@dev:~ # crontab -l
crontab: no crontab for root

but here is the crontab entry:

*/10 * * * * www /usr/local/bin/php /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-cron.php

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@bogdan Uploaded. Removed all sites and added a single site to test. Will report back in a few when cron runs naturally…

T

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Thanks, let us know how it goes.

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Hello:

Sorry for the delay on response. But the same error occurred. Please see the output email error:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function MainWP\Dashboard\session_write_close() in /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/class/class-mainwp-utility.php:247
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/class/class-mainwp-sync.php(65): MainWP\Dashboard\MainWP_Utility::end_session()
#1 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/class/class-mainwp-system-cron-jobs.php(603): MainWP\Dashboard\MainWP_Sync::sync_site()
#2 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(292): MainWP\Dashboard\MainWP_System_Cron_Jobs->cron_updates_check()
#3 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(316): WP_Hook->apply_filters()
#4 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-includes/plugin.php(551): WP_Hook->do_action()
#5 /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-cron.php(138): do_action_ref_array()
#6 {main}
  thrown in /usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-content/plugins/mainwp/class/class-mainwp-utility.php on line 247
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                                0 0 2px 1px rgba(30, 140, 190, 0.8);
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                        border: 1px solid #016087;
                        color: #016087;
                        display: inline-block;
                        text-decoration: none;
                        font-size: 13px;
                        line-height: 2;
                        height: 28px;
                        margin: 0;
                        padding: 0 10px 1px;
                        cursor: pointer;
                        -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
                        -webkit-appearance: none;
                        border-radius: 3px;
                        white-space: nowrap;
                        -webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
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                        vertical-align: top;
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                .button.button-large {
                        line-height: 2.30769231;
                        min-height: 32px;
                        padding: 0 12px;
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                .button:hover,
                .button:focus {
                        background: #f1f1f1;
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                .button:focus {
                        background: #f3f5f6;
                        border-color: #007cba;
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</head>
<body id="error-page">
        <div class="wp-die-message"><p>There has been a critical error on this website.</p><p><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/article/faq-troubleshooting/">Learn more about troubleshooting WordPress.</a></p></div></body>
</html>
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thanks, we will check this again

9

I just got a new update, please try this version:

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Downloaded and installed. Will report back. Also, just for additional info, I am attaching system report and leaving info.php up in case anyone wants to check it @ INFO.PHP

Also, now I am having an issue connecting to the sites. Tried to remove them and put them back in; but they will not remove. How to force/manually remove child sites? Without Dashboard trying to uninstall Mainwp on the child sites; because it obviously cannot.

Thanks,
T


### Server Info                    Required                                               Detected                                     Status   ###

MainWP Dashboard                   
MainWP Dashboard Version           4.1.6                                                  4.1.7-beta2                                  Warning     
MainWP Upload Directory            Writable                                               Writable                                     Pass        
MainWP Extensions                  
No installed extensions            
WordPress                          
WordPress Version                  >=3.6                                                  5.7.2                                        Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  256M                                         Pass        
MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
FileSystem Method                  = direct                                               direct                                       Pass        
PHP                                
PHP Version                        >=5.6                                                  7.4.20                                       Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Max Execution Time             >=30 seconds                                           180                                          Pass        
PHP Max Input Time                 >=30 seconds                                           600                                          Pass        
PHP Memory Limit                   >=128M                                                 1024M                                        Pass        
PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   256M                                         Pass        
PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   512M                                         Pass        
SSL Extension Enabled              =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
SSL Warnings                       = empty                                                                                             Pass        
cURL Extension Enabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
cURL Timeout                       >=300 seconds                                          600                                          Pass        
cURL Version                       >=7.18.1                                               7.76.0                                       Pass        
cURL SSL Version                   >=OpenSSL/0.9.8l                                       OpenSSL/1.1.1h                               Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                YES                                                    
PHP Exif Support                   YES ( V7.4.)                                           
PHP IPTC Support                   YES                                                    
PHP XML Support                    YES                                                    
PHP Disabled Functions             No functions disabled.                                 
PHP Loaded Extensions              Core, Phar, Reflection, SPL, SimpleXML, bcmath, bz2, cgi-fcgi, ctype, curl, date, dom, exif, fileinfo, filter, gd, gettext, gmp, hash, ice, iconv, imagick, intl, json, libxml, mbstring, mysqli, mysqlnd, openssl, pcre, soap, standard, xml, xmlreader, xmlrpc, xmlwriter, zlib
MySQL                              
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MySQL Mode                         ERROR_FOR_DIVISION_BY_ZERO,NO_AUTO_CREATE_USER,NO_ENGINE_SUBSTITUTION
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Server Info                        
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Server Name                        support.in-design.com                                  
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Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
Memory Usage                       82.45 MB                                               
Complete URL                       https://support.in-design.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=managesites&id=18
Request Time                       1624478349                                             
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Currently Executing Script Pathname//usr/local/www/support.in-design.com/wp-admin/admin.php
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Hi @tziady,

Thanks. Let me know how it goes.

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Could you try to call it with curl instead? This is how I do it and it works fine…

For testing on the commandline and see if you get any errors you could issue this:

curl https://support.in-design.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron

Your crontab would be:

*/10 * * * * curl https://support.in-design.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron > /dev/null 2>&1

We skipped a bit over that first error message though:

root@dev:~ # crontab -l
crontab: no crontab for root

I used FreeBSD alot back in the day. And that system can be a bit more explicit with permissions. This message tells me that there is no crontab at all. If all the suggestions mentioned above fail. Try this:

crontab -e -u root

And then add:

*/10 * * * * curl https://support.in-design.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron > /dev/null 2>&1

Let us know if it works! :slight_smile:

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Will do and report back.

With the current incarnations of FreeBSD (and am a returning operator from way way back in the day (read early 90s); there is both a root crontab and a system /etc/crontab that I have always used without too many errors.

However, I will try and use the actual root user’s tab and see if that helps.

The other thing that is odd; is that this machine has 3 virtual sites on it. The other 2 (granted do not have Main WP) appear to not have any issues whatsoever.

Anyway, I will definitely try these and let you know.

Thanks for the help.

Cheers,
T

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