Why are my Laravel Queue Jobs failing after 60 seconds?

This will work

php artisan queue:listen --timeout=1200

Adjust the time based on your need

Important note: "expire" is now called "retry_after" (Laravel 5.4)

It turns out that in addition to timeout there is an expire setting defined in config/queue.php

    'database' => [
        'driver' => 'database',
        'table' => 'jobs',
        'queue' => 'default',
        'expire' => 60,
    ],

Changing that to a higher value did the trick.

UPDATE: This parameter is now called retry_after

    'database' => [
        'driver' => 'database',
        'table' => 'jobs',
        'queue' => 'default',
        'retry_after' => 60,
    ],

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