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Aborting.

Error message

Aborting.

What it means

In ClearLogsCommand, when the user declines the confirmation prompt (and did not pass --force), the command warns 'Aborting.' and returns without deleting the counted records. This is normal interactive cancellation, not a failure.

Solutions

1. Re-run and answer yes to the confirmation
2. Pass --force to skip the confirmation prompt
3. For CI, add --force deliberately after verifying the --before cutoff

Example fix

// before
php flarum clear:logs --before=2026-01-01   # declines prompt
// after
php flarum clear:logs --before=2026-01-01 --force

if (!posix_isatty(STDIN) && !$force) { // non-interactive: auto-decline or pass --force }

When it happens

Trigger: Running `php flarum clear:logs` with matching records and answering 'no' to the '<count> records will be deleted...' confirm prompt.

Common situations: Operator second-guesses a destructive deletion, runs the command non-interactively without --force so the prompt is auto-declined, or CI pipelines that cannot answer prompts.

Understand the failure class

Background: "--flag is required" and "must specify" CLI errors: how missing-required-flag validation works and how to fix it — this error's family across 20 libraries.

Related errors

• This value is required
• There are no entries matching this query. Aborting.
• No option chosen. Run with --help for the list of options.

AI-assisted analysis of flarum/framework@4b939f6853 (2026-09-15). Data as JSON: /api/errors/580835d0fee0e453. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at extensions/audit/src/Console/ClearLogsCommand.php:39

    protected $signature = 'audit:clear {--before= : Delete entries older than the specified date. Any Carbon syntax is supported} {--reset : Delete all data, database tables and disable extension} {--force : Don\'t ask for confirmation}';
    protected $description = 'Permanently destroy audit log entries';

    public function handle(Connection $db, ExtensionManager $manager): void
    {
        if ($before = $this->option('before')) {
            $beforeDate = Carbon::parse($before);

            $query = AuditLog::query()->where('created_at', '<', $beforeDate);
            $count = $query->count();

            if ($count === 0) {
                $this->warn('There are no entries matching this query. Aborting.');

                return;
            }

            if (! $this->option('force') && ! $this->confirm($count.' records will be deleted from the log table. Continue?')) {
                $this->warn('Aborting.');

                return;
            }

            $query->delete();
            $this->info($count.' records deleted.');
            $this->info('All done!');

            AuditLogger::log('audit_log_cleared', [
                'before' => $beforeDate->toIso8601String(),
                'deleted_count' => $count,
            ]);

            return;
        }

        if ($this->option('reset')) {
            if (! $this->option('force') && ! $this->confirm('This will delete the audit log database table and disable the extension. Continue?')) {

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