Qlikview Distribution Service is running but not working

[#1]

Hi all,

Currently I have run into a very difficult issue to solve.  About 12 hours ago all tasks stopped running in Qlikview.  If I try to manually start a task in QMC it will not actually start the task (Yes I have automatic refresh on).  I first tried to restart the service and that didn't help.  I then restarted the server and that didn't help either.  I am not sure where else to look.  I have reached out to our QlikView representative but I haven't heard back yet.  We are on QlikView 11 SR5.  Does anyone have any idea what could be going on?  We haven't really done anything to the platform in months so I have no clue what is going on.

Jon

[Ricardo_Gerhard · Accepted solution]

You can do this:

- stop all services;

- backup directory programdata\distributionservices;

- delete the directory DistributionService;

- start all service, the tasks will be recreated;

- play again

Do you have many tasks? More than 100? Do you change password of Qlikview Services Account?

[#3]

I actually figured this one out.  The folder EDXResults was filled to the brim and dumping that seemed to fix the issue.  I am not sure why that fixes the issue so feel free to drop a comment if you know more on that.

[Ricardo_Gerhard]

This folder is big, with million of files.

I recommend delete all distributionservice folder as mentioned before.