OEM12c jobs fail with "Error attempting to invoke console command"

Hi gurus,
I'm wondering if someone could help me on this issue.
When I try to execute a job it remains in "Running" state for a long time periord and looking at the jobs details I can see something like this:
Execution: DB11G.WORLD
     DB11G.WORLD     Running     Aug 29, 2012 10:17:31 AM GMT+02:00          57.9 minutes
Step: DeployDriver     DB11G.WORLD     Scheduled
Doing drilldown in "Scheduled" hiperlynk the message displayed is that:
Error attempting to invoke console command, retrying
And this is the Tip offered by oem:
     TIP:      Management Service from which the job step was dispatched.
Everything seems to be working even the Management Service, but any job launched fail in the same way.
Environment:
Oem12c 12.1.0.1.0 with last patch
Oracle Linux 5.7
DB Oracle 11gr2
Any suggestion on this issue will be welcome.
Thanks,
Carlos.

Thanks Eric for your feedback.
It seems that the problem was related with target "Oracle Authorization Policy Manager" because this target was down and after restart OMS and check that this target was up again all pending jobs worked and finished.
However the job_queue_processes value was a good point to take into account so I increase this parameter just in case.
Thanks,
Carlos.
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