On Fri, 21 Sep 2007, Jeff Lightner wrote:

> We see this on occasion for RMAN and also for other client initiated
> backups (as opposed to those we initiate from the master server
> scheduler).
>
> It appears that what occurs is the client process that started the job
> died for whatever reason (sometimes it is a timeout at the client which
> what we initially saw on RMAN).   When this occurs the master server
> isn't told the job isn't going to complete so shows it "queued".   The
> only way we've found to clear this is to bounce the daemons on the
> master server.   However, it doesn't actually hurt anything since it
> isn't doing anything - it's just an annoyance to see it in the activity
> monitor.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Justin
> Piszcz
> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 12:53 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Odd ball Oracle RMAN backup problem.
>
> We have Oracle databases that backup using the RMAN agent.
>
> Every once and awhile with 6.0MP4 we see jobs QUEUED forever, other jobs
>
> run fine or when the job on the client re-runs it is fine, but every so
> often there is 1 (or more) jobs that stay queued until you right click
> and
> kill (or bpbdbjos -cancel) them, has anyone seen this before?
>
> I have a case open currently but they are talking to me like they have
> never seen it before?
>
> Justin.
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What version are you running?

Does it occur with 6.0MP5/6.5.x?

Justin.
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