Cron.php has an error and does not complete

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In order to help you as quickly as possible, before clicking Create Topic please provide as much of the below as you can. Feel free to use a pastebin service for logs, otherwise either indent short log examples with four spaces:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to a member function getLogger() on null in /home/y4x/public_html/nextcloud/cron.php:162
Stack trace:
#0 {main}
  thrown in .../nextcloud/cron.php on line 162

Some or all of the below information will be requested if it isn’t supplied; for fastest response please provide as much as you can :heart:

Nextcloud version (eg, 20.0.9): 20.0.9
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 20.04): Centos 7
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache/2.4.46 (cPanel)
PHP version (eg, 7.4): 7.3.27

The issue you are facing:

Cron does not work and hangs when I run it manually using the following command:
php -f /home/y4x/public_html/nextcloud/cron.php

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): N

Steps to replicate it:

  1. run php -f /home/y4x/public_html/nextcloud/cron.php

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

Nothing there related to cron.php

The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):

PASTE HERE

The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:

<?php
$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => '*************',
  'passwordsalt' => '**************************',
  'secret' => '**************************************',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'nc.********.biz',
  ),
  'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu',
  'datadirectory' => '/var/nc_data',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '20.0.9.1',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://**********',
  'dbname' => '*********',
  'dbhost' => 'localhost',
  'dbport' => '',
  'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
  'dbuser' => '**********',
  'dbpassword' => '***********',
  'installed' => true,
  'maintenance' => false,
  'tempdirectory' => '/var/nc_data/tmp',
  'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto,30',
  'versions_retention_obligation' => 'auto,2',
  'logfile' => '/var/log/nextcloud/nextcloud.log',
  'logfilemode' => 416,
  'loglevel' => 2,
  'logtimezone' => 'America/Boise',
  'log_rotate_size' => 10485760,
  'activity_expire_days' => 4,
  'theme' => '',
  'updater.secret' => '*************',
);

I guess I got the info in the wrong place. Don’t use this much. Sorry.