At time to run cron: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Cron.php

@vacho -- That's not a solution. This merely silences the error but the worker will never be executed then, given a lease time of nothing.

@vacho -- Put a dpm() or similar dump into the first line of that function and check $queue to see which worker actually causes the problem. Then investigate that worker. I had the same problem and it turned out to be an error in the worker's dependency injection (I'm developing it right now, so it was my error in my case). If it's your code, fix it, if it someone else's, contact them for a fix. As it looks, this isn't a Drupal core issue at all -- as soon as I fixed my own code, it went back to normal.

Basically, the first thing to check is whether line 206:

$worker = $this->queueManager->createInstance($queue_name);

can actually instantiate the worker at all. Note that various source sample floating around the web are erronous, if you happen to develop your own worker, be sure to take them with a huge grain of salt.

I ran across this error while working on some malformed custom queueworker plugins that worked in Drupal 9 but not in Drupal 10.

But perhaps the larger issue is that the warning wasn't logged by Drupal. Without any logs, we didn't know about the issue for some time.

Here's a small patch that logs an error when line 264 in Cron.php fails and sets $lease_time to null.

This can happen if $worker->getPluginDefinition() fails (as it did in my case) or if the 'time' key is missing from the plugin definition.

Steps should be added to the issue summary, as well as missing sections.

Changed to 11.x as the current development branch.

Also as a bug will need a test case.

I ran into this problem after updating drupal to 10.2.
The patch give me "Missing lease time for cron" in my log.
I created a queue mail function from a sample floating around the web few years ago.
Can you give me an example, link to a custom queueworker plugins which is well configured for 10.2?

I fixed my problem by reconfiguring the Custom Queue Worker with this example :
https://www.alansaunders.co.uk/blog/queues-drupal-8-and-9

@zorax: What did you actually change about your queue config?

@zorax Any information please? I hae the same error after upgrading drupal 9 to 10

@liam-morland this was the same issue with the QueueWorkerPlugin we were using.

Patch for Drupal 10.2.5

I had my own custom queue and I was also facing the same error after upgrading Drupal 9.5 to 10.3. I followed the comment#11 🐛 At time to run cron: Trying to access array offset on value of type null in web/core/lib/Drupal/Core/Cron.php Active , it fixes the error.

In my case $worker->getPluginDefinition() didn't return any array with the sub-array "cron" because it was empty.