Timer thread hanging process

[Kenadi Moore]

I have a thread that uses the “Timer” functionality with advanced scheduling to only run once a month.  It is in a process with several other “normal” threads and has run without issue for several months.  Monday at 10 am was its usual run time.  It ran successfully, but ever since then, the process has been hanging.  We can’t get the other threads to run correctly unless we completely stop the timer thread.

Has anyone seen this behavior before or have any ideas what could be causing it?  We can’t see anything in the logs.   We have to use a kill -9 to stop the process.  If you restart it, the problem re-occurs.

This is cloverleaf version 5.7 and it’s happening in both live and test.

Thanks,

Kenadi

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[Kenadi Moore]

I have the answer to this problem in case any one is interested…

It turns out that the issue was related to the next scheduled run time being next year.  We were using an * in the month field for advanced scheduling.  When we switched this to list out all the months instead (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12), the issue was resolved.

This was discovered during a great troubleshooting session with Ed and David from Lawson.  Thanks guys!

-Kenadi

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