General Questions/New to Joomla! 5.x • Joomla Update Notifications Error

Suddenly, 48 hours ago, I began receiving a Task Failure report of:
"Planned execution of Scheduled Task#3, Update Notification, has failed with exit code 5 at Sunday, 19 May 2024 15:02. Please visit the Joomla! backend for more information."
Since the Joomla and Extension notification plugins are configured to run every 6 hours, at that interval the system kicks out PHP Exception reports:
" Exception Type: JsonException
File: /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/vendor/php-tuf/php-tuf/src/Metadata/MetadataBase.php
Line: 90
Message: Syntax error

#0 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/vendor/php-tuf/php-tuf/src/Metadata/MetadataBase.php(90): json_decode()
#1 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/vendor/php-tuf/php-tuf/src/Client/Repository.php(67): Tuf\Metadata\MetadataBase::createFromJson()
#2 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/vendor/php-tuf/php-tuf/src/Client/Updater.php(181): Tuf\Client\Repository->getTimestamp()
#3 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/vendor/php-tuf/php-tuf/src/Client/Updater.php(148): Tuf\Client\Updater->updateTimestamp()
#4 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/TUF/TufFetcher.php(117): Tuf\Client\Updater->refresh()
#5 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Updater/Adapter/TufAdapter.php(84): Joomla\CMS\TUF\TufFetcher->getValidUpdate()
#6 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Updater/Adapter/TufAdapter.php(50): Joomla\CMS\Updater\Adapter\TufAdapter->getUpdateTargets()
#7 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Updater/Updater.php(263): Joomla\CMS\Updater\Adapter\TufAdapter->findUpdate()
#8 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Updater/Updater.php(164): Joomla\CMS\Updater\Updater->getUpdateObjectsForSite()
#9 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/administrator/components/com_installer/src/Model/UpdateModel.php(275): Joomla\CMS\Updater\Updater->findUpdates()
#10 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/administrator/components/com_installer/src/Controller/UpdateController.php(113): Joomla\Component\Installer\Administrator\Model\UpdateModel->findUpdates()
#11 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/MVC/Controller/BaseController.php(730): Joomla\Component\Installer\Administrator\Controller\UpdateController->find()
#12 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Dispatcher/ComponentDispatcher.php(143): Joomla\CMS\MVC\Controller\BaseController->execute()
#13 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Component/ComponentHelper.php(361): Joomla\CMS\Dispatcher\ComponentDispatcher->dispatch()
#14 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Application/AdministratorApplication.php(150): Joomla\CMS\Component\ComponentHelper::renderComponent()
#15 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Application/AdministratorApplication.php(195): Joomla\CMS\Application\AdministratorApplication->dispatch()
#16 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/libraries/src/Application/CMSApplication.php(306): Joomla\CMS\Application\AdministratorApplication->doExecute()
#17 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/administrator/includes/app.php(58): Joomla\CMS\Application\CMSApplication->execute()
#18 /home/rxbrawbt/public_html/administrator/index.php(32): require_once('/home/rxbrawbt/...')
#19 {main}

Request information
GET variables

Array
(
[option] => com_installer
[view] => update
[task] => update.find
[0370b106ef44850aefd271157766842e] => 1
)

POST variables

Array
(
)

COOKIE variables

Array
(
[osColorScheme] => light
[100bff65f21957d85ba6218c5ab43386] => n053qtv33mkf74tnqv25mm2hgv
[cab781f47385b5026469fec971d7298f] => 4c00830pe1veo3n2kc11c1uqrk
)

REQUEST variables

Array
(
[option] => com_installer
[view] => update
[task] => update.find
[0370b106ef44850aefd271157766842e] => 1
)"

I took the website (https://www.southshenandoah.net/) offline and reconfigured the debug option and set it to display all errors. These debug reports apply:

Joomla Update Extensions I have not had any extension updates to make over the past 48 hours and I haven't made any changes to any file anywhere. I'm not a developer and I'm very concerned about this.
I appreciate any suggestions. Thank you!

Statistics: Posted by bubblehead — Sun May 19, 2024 4:15 pm

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