Check the profile root for extras !
The first time I ran the process on the deployment manager profile it took around 10 to 20 min. When I moved to the profile that the application ran in I was surprised to see the process run for over an hour ! Turns out we had a bunch of .PHD files totaling a few Gigabytes. After I removed the .PHD files the process ran in 20 min.
I got two errors that complained about the zipProfile.ant:13: saying "The process cannot access the file because another process has locked a portion of the file." Turns out that this can be the cause of a few different things I experienced two. The first was in one of our testing environments. The appServerRoot>/properties/profileRegistry.xml had a profile listed isAReservationTicket="true". I set this to false (see the IBM notes below ) and the process ran as expected.
Zombies are never a good thing
The second error was during the PRD release. After checking the profileRegistry.xml to make sure the isAReservationTicket value was not the issue, I checked my processes to see if I had a zombie to kill. Turns out my zombie stuck out like a sore thumb because we use service accounts to run our WebSphere services.
Finale Thought
Lastly, I wanted to share how fast these error occur. If I had issues they always happened during the first few minutes of the process running.
Content and URL from the IBM KA.
Problem(Abstract)
manageprofiles.sh -backupProfile -profileName <your_profile> -backupFile <your_backup>
Symptom
The command fails with the following message:
Profile <your_profile> is currently in use: Retry the command later. If there are no other processes are operating on the profile, then the profile might be corrupt. Run the validateAndUpdateRegistry command and create the profile again. INSTCONFFAILED: Cannot backup profile: For more information, consult /WebSphere/AppServer/logs/manageprofiles/your_profile_backupProfile.log.
Cause
It is possible a started process locked an XML file or if the process was killed, a zombie process was created that is holding a file lock.
Resolving the problem
Try the following 3 suggestions to help resolve the problem:
You can try rebooting the server. This will clear any zombie processes and any file locks they are holding.
If you cannot reboot the server, then you can try using the "lsof" command to list the open files on the server. Then look for any IBM® WebSphere® Application Server XML file for which there is an open file descriptor. You should be able to identify the process that is referencing that file descriptor and kill/close that process.
The original process may have create a lock file in the OS /tmp directory. Look for any files in the /tmp directory that were created around the time of the first manageprofiles session that you killed. Then remove that file.
If the preceeding 3 suggestions do not resolve the problem, try modifying the profileRegisry.xml file located in the following default path:
<appServerRoot>/properties/profileRegistry.xml
Note: This will backup the file prior to making any manual changes.
In this file there will be an entry corresponding to each profile. For example:
<profile isAReservationTicket="true" isDefault="false" name="your_profile"
path="/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/<your_profile>"
template="/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/default"/>
Change the value of isAReservationTicket="true" to isAReservationTicket="false". For example:
<profile isAReservationTicket="false" isDefault="false" name="your_profile"
path="/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/<your_profile>"
template="/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/default"/>
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21320418
Content and URL from the IBM KA.
Problem(Abstract)
manageprofiles.sh -backupProfile -profileName <your_profile> -backupFile <your_backup>
Symptom
The command fails with the following message:
Profile <your_profile> is currently in use: Retry the command later. If there are no other processes are operating on the profile, then the profile might be corrupt. Run the validateAndUpdateRegistry command and create the profile again. INSTCONFFAILED: Cannot backup profile: For more information, consult /WebSphere/AppServer/logs/manageprofiles/your_profile_backupProfile.log.
Cause
It is possible a started process locked an XML file or if the process was killed, a zombie process was created that is holding a file lock.
Resolving the problem
Try the following 3 suggestions to help resolve the problem:
You can try rebooting the server. This will clear any zombie processes and any file locks they are holding.
If you cannot reboot the server, then you can try using the "lsof" command to list the open files on the server. Then look for any IBM® WebSphere® Application Server XML file for which there is an open file descriptor. You should be able to identify the process that is referencing that file descriptor and kill/close that process.
The original process may have create a lock file in the OS /tmp directory. Look for any files in the /tmp directory that were created around the time of the first manageprofiles session that you killed. Then remove that file.
If the preceeding 3 suggestions do not resolve the problem, try modifying the profileRegisry.xml file located in the following default path:
<appServerRoot>/properties/profileRegistry.xml
Note: This will backup the file prior to making any manual changes.
In this file there will be an entry corresponding to each profile. For example:
<profile isAReservationTicket="true" isDefault="false" name="your_profile"
path="/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/<your_profile>"
template="/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/default"/>
Change the value of isAReservationTicket="true" to isAReservationTicket="false". For example:
<profile isAReservationTicket="false" isDefault="false" name="your_profile"
path="/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/<your_profile>"
template="/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/default"/>
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21320418
