File Watcher issue...

I am hoping someone can nail this or point me in the right direction because I seem to be hitting a brick wall...
Until last night I was successfully using my file watcher job and then it just stopped "watching" for some unexplainable reason. The file watcher and the event job is pretty straightforward based on several examples provided in this forum and elsewhere. Few details;
Oracle EBS R12 (12.1.3)
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    'external_user',
    'osuser',
    'ospassword');
dbms_scheduler.create_file_watcher (
    file_watcher_name => 'file_watcher',
    directory_path    => '/tmp',
    file_name         => 'file.txt',
    credential_name   => 'external_user',
    enabled           => TRUE);
dbms_scheduler.create_job (
    job_name          =>'filewatchjob',
    queue_spec        =>'file_watcher',
    job_type          =>'plsql_block',
    job_action        =>'null;',
    event_condition   => NULL,
    enabled           =>true);
end;
NOTE: I have used different parameter values for directory_path, file_watcher & job name, and credential.
1. I have tested and confirmed that 'Credential' works. This was tested by using another 'External' job which moves files from location A to B.
2. I altered 'REPEAT_INTERVAL' attribute of 'FILE_WATCHER_SCHEDULE' from the default 10mins to 3mins.
3. Created and touched the file "file.txt" at frequent intervals in anticipation it will get pooled.
However,
1. **schedulerjob_run_details* and **schedulerjob_log* does not show the said job as expected.
2. The file watcher is created correctly and appears in dba_scheduler_file_watchers.
3. The file watcher job appears in user_scheduler_jobs as ENABLED
4. From table dba_scheduler_global_attribute the value for attribute FILE_WATCHER_COUNT is 6. Which sounds about right before things stopped.
5. Finally (no quite as I tried several other things in-between), as a last resort the database server was bounced, but still no change.
It almost feels like the background process that queues the file watcher queue has stopped!! Just a guess. But I have no idea how to check for that. I have looked at dba_running_jobs to see if sys.file_watcher job is running, but no. I am not sure if this is something I should be looking for....
So, please any questions, suggestions, thoughts, etc... will be truly appreciated.
thanks
ilyas
P.S. What tags to use to format code in forum post?
Edited by: ilyas001 on Jul 7, 2011 11:38 PM
Our DBA pointed out a BUG ID on metalink 11715143: FILE WATCHER DOESN'T EXECUTE THE JOB WHEN THERE'S FILES IN THE WATCHED DIRECTORY
The symptoms listed in the bug note are very similar to my problem with two exceptions: 1). Our server is not generating a trace file for filewatcher (it did generate trace when I screwing up with 'External' job types), and 2). As mentioned previously, file watcher was working until 24Hrs back.....
Edited by: ilyas001 on Jul 8, 2011 9:27 AM

@mseberg
suggestion :
set parallel_instances=trueYES. The parallel inst attribute for the job was set to TRUE. Not for the job in the code snippet I posted, but for the original code that was working successfully - as expected. In the latter test code case I was creating and touching files every so often (my default job class interval was changed to 3mins.
I know you have done this but I would triple check :
SELECT credential_name,
username
FROM user_scheduler_credentials;YES. Creating Credentials was the first heartburn I had because it would get created, but just couldn't run any OS commands. Sorry, can't remember the exact error msg, it was something others had experienced on this forum. After a lot of digging on google and here it finally started to work after (re)linking libpam library (64bit).
So, it appears in the scheduler credential table and have frequently tested it by running another job of type EXECUTABLE to move files around from the same source location where Filewatcher is polling from.
Mseberg, thanks for your feedback.

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