Title: Odd error when calling WP-CRON
Last modified: February 3, 2017

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# Odd error when calling WP-CRON

 *  Resolved [Mark Cutting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcutting/)
 * (@mcutting)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-error-when-calling-wp-cron/)
 * Hi. I’m seeing an odd error when calling wp-cron.php via “real” cron and WordPress
 * open(“/home/website/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wp-statistics/vendor/geoip2/
   geoip2/src/Exception/GeoIp2Exception.php”, O_RDONLY) = 6
 * Looks like something is being blocked here, but to make it worse, it seems to
   kill wp-cron completely. This started happening about 5 days ago.
 * i’m running PHP 7 – any ideas please ?
 * Thanks

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Greg Ross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gregross/)
 * (@gregross)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-error-when-calling-wp-cron/#post-8736393)
 * My guess is that whatever user your running cron as doesn’t have access to the
   GeoIP library and thus failing.
 *  Thread Starter [Mark Cutting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcutting/)
 * (@mcutting)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-error-when-calling-wp-cron/#post-8737960)
 * Turns out that another plugin was causing this issue. Had blocked the IP calling
   cron, so issue solved.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/odd-error-when-calling-wp-cron/#post-8737960)
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