Job hang in RUNNING state

Question

Hi,
Database ver. 11g (11.1.0.7.0)
I have created simple job using DBMS_SCHEDULER.
begin
dbms_scheduler.create_job (
job_name => 'test_job',
job_type => 'plsql_block',
job_action => 'null;',
enabled => true);
end;
SELECT job_name, job_action, schedule_type, state
FROM all_scheduler_jobs
WHERE job_name = 'TEST_JOB';
JOB_NAME  JOB_ACTION   SCHEDULE_TYPE    STATE
TEST_JOB   null;        IMMEDIATE      RUNNING
SELECT job_name, session_id , running_instance, cpu_used
FROM dba_scheduler_running_jobs
WHERE job_name = 'TEST_JOB';
JOB_NAME  SESSION_ID  RUNNING_INSTANCE, CPU_USED
TEST_JOB   null          null          null Job is remaining in hang state, could you please let me know possible reason?
Many thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
Actually your syntax is exactly right for running a single run-immediate job.
it looks like the slave running your job may have crashed or terminated unexpectedly. You should do a stop_job (force=>true) on your job and you should look through your job slave trace files j0trc for reasons why your job slave did not finish the job. You can also try grepping your job slave traces for the job name 'TEST_JOB' to find the right trace.
Hope this helps,
Ravi.