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Im running a sequencer where a single job is called in mulitple invocations. The job name is job_INSERT_INVOICE_SECTION_STATUS_CABS. For around 10 invocations the following error is encountered.

RT_SCTEMP/job_INSERT_INVOICE_SECTION_STATUS_CABS.100556.fifo
LOCKED STATUS () -1); file is locked

Please advice.

Thanks.

It would appear that two jobs have generated the same pipe filename. This is odd, as the numeric component should be the process ID. But, if you are using an O/S with large pids and the name only uses the rightmost six characters, I guess there's a chance of this happening. Involve your support provider; if my analysis is correct you've uncovered a bug.

What is the invocation Id for the Current run of this job?

Hi Ray/Kumar,

Thanks for your response. The invocation id for the current run of job is 100556. Does this imply that I am using the same invocation id for 2 jobs due to which I am getting this error. Please confirm my understanding.

Thanks.

It would appear that such may be the case.

Or also may be not. Because, today Iam facing similar issue with non multiple instance job. This job was hung for a long time. Asked Unix people to release the lock. Not sure how they did that. Bit strange.

Would you mind asking them?

Yeah, first task for tomorrow. The job is locked as well. I cant even delete and reimport.

kumar_s wrote:Yeah, first task for tomorrow. The job is locked as well. I cant even delete and reimport.

Dear Ray/Kumar,

I am running around 100 jobs in parallel of which 50 jobs are getting locked due to the above fifo file locked error. What could now be the possible solution for the above issue.

Thanks.

Still awaiting response from kumar_s...

Is yours precisely the same error, with precisely the same number in the name of the file?

If not, are the numbers in your file names corresponding to process IDs or, perhaps, invocation IDs of multi-instance jobs?

ray.wurlod wrote:Still awaiting response from kumar_s...

Is yours precisely the same error, with precisely the same number in the name of the file?

If not, are the numbers in your file names corresponding ...

There are around 200 jobs which are being called with invocations. 80 jobs are being aborted with the fifo file locked error.
eg: RT_SCTEMP/JobName.100556.fifo
LOCKED STATUS () -1); file is locked

The number in the file name is invocation id.eg 100556. I have checked code and concluded that there are no jobs which are being called with the same invocation id.
Please advice on how to solve this issue.

Thanks.

Hi Ray,
I searchd thru the posts nd found some advce regarding rights on the RT_SCTEMP dir. As suggested in this posts, I gave all the read,write,execute rights to this directory. In fact, I emptied this dir (by takin a backup) & ran the sequencer again. Bt the error is still coming for a new set of jobs. I also noticed that all those fifo files which are present in this RT_SCTEMP dir, corresponding jobs to these files are aborting. I am totally clueless abt this. Plz help, thr is a large no. of jobs failing due to this err.

Time to involve your official support provider, it seems.

Issue in my site got sorted out. And it turned out to be a dump issue.
The first time when I asked to release the lock for the jobs, they have killed the PIDs from Unix. I think that could left the lock of that job over the RT_SCTEMP folder.
Yes that fifo were present, if the job gets aborted.
Next time, they used Admin window to release the lock of that job. And not its running fine.
I wanted you to check, if you run the job in less number of instance, does it get aborted? Start with 10s and gradually increase with multiples of 10.