Companions quest "Trouble in Skyrim" bug

[Based God]

The first quest Farkas gives you after you go through all the introductory stuff with the Companions is bugged out for me. First, after sucessfully completing the objective and fast travellling back to Whiterun, the quest auto-completes itself before I can talk to Farkas. The quest appears complete, but I cant take any more radiant quests from the other Companions. To try and fix that, I used the console commands "setstage cr05 100" which should complete the quest, so I can pick up more. No dice. I tried "completequest cr05" and "stopquest cr05" as well to no avail. I reloaded a save from when I exited the cave (before I fast travelled) and teleported Farkas to me to turn in the quest without entering Whiterun. I returned to Jorrvaskr and the Companions still won't give me quests. I'm out of ideas.

[MysticMalevolence]

Load an earlier save. You probably shouldn't continue playing the save after trying to fix it with console commands as it sounds like it may have made it worse.
Perhaps try waiting for a while away from Jorrvaskr and see it that fixes it by itself?

[Based God]

Found a way around it by reloading an old save, then refusing the quest. Stupid bug.

[Ulukaï]

I got stuck with the quest stopped at stage 255 (the entry says "Return to Farkas", but with no marker) and there's no dialogue available.
I cannot take new quests from the other companion leaders, they would only tell that I should finish the quest with Farkas first.
resetquest and completequest commands don't help

I would really like to be able to start the Totems for Hircine quests, does anyone have an idea? I don't want to go back to an older save, since I'd lose too much time. I realized that the quest was broken too late, after I had overwritten my last save.

[Storkelton]

Can also try this: If you have a save after accepting the mission but before completing it (for me it was take out a spriggan), fast travel to the location and immediately fast travel back without fighting.

It did "auto complete", but I could resume the quest line as normal without issue.

Presumably works on consoles as well as pc considering no commands were use.

Don't know why it works, it just did after I tried a few other suggestions.

*Edit: modded with the unofficial patch and still ran into this issue. Method I listed worked 3 times (tested it after the first surprise that it worked. Total accident)

[dulany67]

The problem is that there are scripts that fire on completion of quests that lead to the next quest. Sometimes they don't fire when you complete by console or something wonky happens.

I have the same issue with the DB questline and no matter how come at it, I can't get to the next stage.

[Archlord]

Even now in 2023 this bug exists. I looked all over the internet and couldn't see a usefull solution to the issue, but, I might have found a solution to this problem, but it is not for sure. I loaded to an earlier save when I was a member of the companions. This might work better than trying to load to saves which you already a member of companions.

[SpeedFreak1972]

Just before you do any quest make a hard save in the case it bugs out reload that save and try a different one