Cache seeding problem

Hi Folks,
This may be a Bug as i understand from my previous readings in the forum or misconfiguration in the ibots
The Cache seeding technique is not working for Users on dashboard pages
users mean who are not part of RPD and Presentation server Administrator Group
this users has Read Only Access to the dashboards
The Setup includes
1. LDAP Authentication
2. External Table Authorization
3. No users in RPD
Administrators will schedule the ibots for cache seeding on Dashboard Pages,
Ibots successfully run for users in Admin group and just start and stop immediately with out any errors for users( Non Admin Group people)
is this well known issue or bug
is there any workaround
i have Escalated an SR with Oracle Support, but no USE
Please Suggest
Thanks
Kumr

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