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title: "Cron jobs stop working after Drupal upgrade"
date: "2025-02-06T01:23:51+00:00"
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**Issue**
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The cron jobs stopped running after doing a Drupal upgrade. The logs may show the message below:

    [Symfony\Component\Console\Exception\RuntimeException]
    The "-d" option does not exist.

**Cause**
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The cause for this issue is because the command is using -dv flag for the cron jobs, which no longer works.

**Resolution**
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The intention of the -dv flag was to run verbose debug logs. To achieve this with later versions of drush, use -vvv  
  
According to [Drush's documentation](https://www.drush.org/11.x/commands/core_cron/):

*   _**\-v|vv|vvv, --verbose**. Increase the verbosity of messages: 1 for normal output, 2 for more verbose output and 3 for debug_