LOB is already in use, I’m waiting 5 sec (xx). My name: pid yy on zz

You are importing transport but the transport is taking too much time. You have checked the tp system log (SLOG) and found below error,

WARNING: /PATH-TO-USR-SAP-TRANS-TMP/.LOB is already in use
(XXX), I'm waiting 5 sec (20130101180122). My name: pid XXXX on YYYY.

Solution

1. Stop the running transport.

2. Go to the .LOB directory. Move the file to a new name. Example, .LOB.BAK.

 mv .LOB .LOB.BAK

3. Verify there is no TP running from the operating system level.

ps -ef | grep tp

4. Now, add the transport into buffer again. Then, you can start back to import the transport.

Reference

• SAP Note 12746 – WARN <file> is already in use (), I’m waiting 5 sec
• 690449 – Transport buffer lock file (.LOB) remains blocked on Windows
• 132536 – Improved semaphore mechanism in tp