After CiviCRM Security Update, "Call to undefined function watchdog()"

Question

After updating a CiviCRM with Drupal 7 system with the CiviCRM Security Update a PHP script that I wrote throws the following error:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function watchdog() in xxxxxxx/public/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Utils/System/DrupalBase.php:274
Stack trace:
#0 xxxxxxx/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Error.php(607): CRM_Utils_System_DrupalBase->logger('Contribution 28...', 6)
#1 xxxxxxx/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Core/Error/Log.php(69): CRM_Core_Error::debug_log_message('Contribution 28...', false, '', 6)
#2 xxxxxxx/sites/all/modules/civicrm/vendor/psr/log/Psr/Log/AbstractLogger.php(113): CRM_Core_Error_Log->log('info', 'Contribution 28...', Array)
#3 xxxxxxx/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Contribute/BAO/Contribution.php(3880): Psr\Log\AbstractLogger->info('Contribution 28...')
#4 xxxxxxx/sites/all/modules/civicrm/api/v3/Contributio in xxxxxxx/sites/all/modules/civicrm/CRM/Utils/System/DrupalBase.php on line 274

After disabling "Drupal Watchdog Logging" in the GUI (Administration > Debugging and Error handling) the error disappears. This is not really an option though, as we want to keep the Drupal Error Logging for the system.

The script is creating payments via CiviCRM APIv3 based on bank reports. The error seems pretty "basic" though, and not related much to the script's functions. The script is run daily by a cronjob.

I updated CiviCRM again to 5.65.1 but this didn't fix the problem.

Anybody has a hint what could be wrong here?

Answer 1

I ran into this as well. I think it's similar to the issue in this PR: https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core/pull/25728

But that one addressed the issue in D8, whereas the issue persists in D7.