[v17] PHP cron script runs indefinitely

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Nextcloud version (eg, 12.0.2): 17.0.2
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 17.04): Debian 10
Apache or nginx version (eg, Apache 2.4.25): Apache 2.4.38
PHP version (eg, 7.1): 7.3

The issue you are facing:
The PHP cron process will sometimes run indefinitely. I have to manually kill those processes via a terminal.

Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Yes, since updating from 16 to 17

Steps to replicate it:

  1. Create crontab entry: */5 * * * * /usr/bin/php7.3 -f /var/www/cloud/cron.php
    (/usr/bin/php is mapped to version 7.4, of which is unsupported.)
  2. Let it run.
  3. Wait for your firewall application to warn you that there has been an unexpected process running as “www-data” for more than half an hour.

The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging:

{"reqId":"Ix1sq9tm2OxZPOF0pnM2","level":2,"time":"2019-12-24T22:12:48+00:00","remoteAddr":"2a02:8010:8002:1:***","user":"--","app":"core","method":"GET","url":"/index.php/apps/logreader/settings","message":"Renewing session token failed","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/79.0.3945.88 Safari/537.36","version":"17.0.2.1","id":"5e0335d0cf6a6"}

(This is the only recent log entry since this issue has started, and probably irrelevant.)

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


$CONFIG = array (
  'instanceid' => 'ocs6pbp54s7p',
  'passwordsalt' => '***',
  'secret' => '***',
  'trusted_domains' =>
  array (
    0 => 'cloud.example.com',
  ),
  'datadirectory' => '/var/www/cloud/data',
  'dbtype' => 'mysql',
  'version' => '17.0.2.1',
  'overwrite.cli.url' => 'https://cloud.example.com',
  'installed' => true,
  'maintenance' => false,
  'dbname' => 'cloud_nextcloud',
  'dbhost' => 'db.example.com',
  'dbuser' => 'cloud',
  'dbpassword' => '***',
  'mail_smtpmode' => 'sendmail',
  'mail_sendmailmode' => 'smtp',
  'mail_from_address' => 'cloud',
  'mail_domain' => 'example.com',
  'ldapIgnoreNamingRules' => false,
  'ldapProviderFactory' => 'OCA\\User_LDAP\\LDAPProviderFactory',
  'theme' => '',
  'loglevel' => 2,
  'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
);

The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____: (Irrelevant, non-HTTP issue.)

Potentially related: https://github.com/nextcloud/groupfolders/issues/722