Drupal 10: Recovering From A Broken Cron Run

20th September 2023

If Drupal's cron fails then it will be in a broken state that will give you the following error if you attempt to run it again:

Attempting to re-run cron while it is already running

To recover from this error you need to delete the 'cron' record from the semaphore table.

DELETE FROM semaphore WHERE name='cron';

Run this via Drush using the following command.

drush sql:query "DELETE FROM semaphore WHERE name='cron';"

 

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