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One of my client's CRON daemon recently started sending those errors:

PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function addFieldToFilter() on a non-object in /app/code/core/Mage/Cron/Model/Observer.php on line 105

Running Magento 1.8.1.0

This corresponds to the following lines:

$this->_pendingSchedules = Mage::getModel('cron/schedule')->getCollection()
            ->addFieldToFilter('status', Mage_Cron_Model_Schedule::STATUS_PENDING)
            ->load();

I've already ensured that the Mage_Cron_Model_Resource_Schedule_Collection class exists and the file is at the right location.

I've also checked the cron_schedule table and cron is running fine, most of the scheduled job are in the success status and there's a few pending jobs as well.

I'm not quite sure where I should start debugging. Any clue where I should start looking to narrow down the issue ?

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    You should start by asking your client what on Earth he has done... But yes technically, check if a module hasn't been installed, or if a file hasn't been deleted by mistake – Mayers Jun 14 '16 at 15:52
  • @Mayers yep that's what I will do but I was thinking maybe it's a known Magento issue and it has nothing to do with the client ^^ – Raphael at Digital Pianism Jun 14 '16 at 15:54
  • Not to my knowledge. The reason addFieldToFilter freaks out, is probably because your getCollection returns NULL. Make sure there is also a Cron/Model/Resource/Schedule folder. Otherwise, it's hard to tell what could exactly cause this without more context. But check when the cron last ran properly, something changed at that time – Mayers Jun 14 '16 at 15:56
  • @Mayers yes I checked that and it's all good – Raphael at Digital Pianism Jun 14 '16 at 15:57
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The code in question is:

        $this->_pendingSchedules = Mage::getModel('cron/schedule')->getCollection()
            ->addFieldToFilter('status', Mage_Cron_Model_Schedule::STATUS_PENDING)
            ->load();

Based on that, your problem is that getCollection() is not returning the object Magento expects. Is anything overriding cron/schedule, or its collection cron/resource_schedule_collection?

I would suggest adding logging in there to determine the exact type (get_class($var)) of Mage::getModel('cron/schedule') and Mage::getModel('cron/schedule')->getCollection() in that context. That should give you an idea of where to proceed. Let it run, see what comes out.

It's hard to speculate about the root cause without more info. I suspect a problem with configuration (module XML), either a file being broken, or some module overriding or replacing some XML it shouldn't.

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