lock maintenance

Amos.Rosmarin · Post by **Amos.Rosmarin** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:15 am

Hi,

I have a locked job (access by another user ...) but I do not have the dsadm admionistrator login (nor root)

Is there a way a simple user (like myself) can unlock the job
ds.tools gives me insufficient privilege error

Amos

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:18 am

Without administrative access, the only locks you might have control over are those your userid has. So the answer to your query is most likely "no"

ml · Post by ml » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:51 am

If you have enabled the Job Administrator in Director you can go to "Job>Cleanup Resources", click on show all and with the Lock PID you can check which User has the job locked. If you are this user you can logout the process right there.

Good luck.

mat

Amos.Rosmarin · Post by **Amos.Rosmarin** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 7:58 am

Thanks,

But I am the user
Designer crushed and now the job is locked
Since I do not have the admin I can not release it

I thought dsdeadlock will take care of this but it is locked for an hour now

Thanks all

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:05 am

Amos,

I have seen the deadlock daemon stop running after a whle. Are you sure that the process is still active on your box?

If the deadlock daemon is running, the what has probably happened is that your designer client crashed but the UNIX processes associated with that program are still running. If you close all of your DS process and then do a UNIX "ps -ef | grep {YourUserId}" to see if something is still active. If so, do a normal "kill" (not a kill -9) on them. If they won't go away then you could do a kill -9 but the lock won't go away until the deadlock daemon wakes up and checks your system.

There are ways to look at, cleanup and administer your own locks, but I think the method listed above is the best since the deadlock daemon will clean up after you.

roy · Post by **roy** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:05 am

Amos,
I was wondering
What were you doing that made the designer crash?
So We all might avoid such actions...

Regards,

Amos.Rosmarin · Post by **Amos.Rosmarin** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:21 am

Thanks all,

I did kill -15
I did kill -9

You were right, the deadlock daemon failed and there is no one to clean after me

But again, I'm not root so I can not start the service.

Why does windows crush ... thats for the rich guy from Seattle to answer

Amos

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:38 am

If you are on version 7.5.x and Designer is crashing specifically while editing a Sequence job, this is a known issue and there is a patch availalbe from Support for this. Other than that, sometimes a reinstall of the Client software helps...