# Error Log: "Job exception: undefined method \`closed' for nil:NilClass Did you mean? clone"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-log-job-exception-undefined-method-closed-for-nil-nilclass-did-you-mean-clone/60317
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [02.Апрель.2017 12:36:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-log-job-exception-undefined-method-closed-for-nil-nilclass-did-you-mean-clone/60317 "2017-04-02T12:36:16Z")
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### Author: ![Lutz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lutz/32/65103_2.png) [@Lutz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Lutz)
#### Post date: [02.Апрель.2017 12:36:16 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-log-job-exception-undefined-method-closed-for-nil-nilclass-did-you-mean-clone/60317/1 "2017-04-02T12:36:16Z")

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This is not exactly an error, because everything seems to work as it should. But I really have a lot (several hundred) of this error in the log files of the latest build:

```
Job exception: undefined method `closed' for nil:NilClass
Did you mean? clone

job	Jobs::PeriodicalUpdates

/var/www/discourse/app/models/topic_status_update.rb:82:in `schedule_auto_close_job'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/topic_status_update.rb:42:in `block in ensure_consistency!'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:51:in `block (2 levels) in find_each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:51:in `each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:51:in `block in find_each'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:124:in `find_in_batches'
/var/www/discourse/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.3.0/gems/activerecord-4.2.7.1/lib/active_record/relation/batches.rb:50:in `find_each'
/var/www/discourse/app/models/topic_status_update.rb:41:in `ensure_consistency!'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/scheduled/periodical_updates.rb:28:in `execute'
/var/www/discourse/app/jobs/base.rb:154:in `block (2 levels) in perform'

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [03.Апрель.2017 01:07:58 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-log-job-exception-undefined-method-closed-for-nil-nilclass-did-you-mean-clone/60317/3 "2017-04-03T01:07:58Z")

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Thanks for reporting @Lutz.

Fixed in

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5cf75c67dff5803288642ca2606095b6ca8895e2](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/5cf75c67dff5803288642ca2606095b6ca8895e2)

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### Author: ![tgxworld](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tgxworld/32/106117_2.png) [@tgxworld](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tgxworld)
#### Post date: [03.Апрель.2017 01:08:05 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/error-log-job-exception-undefined-method-closed-for-nil-nilclass-did-you-mean-clone/60317/4 "2017-04-03T01:08:05Z")

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