Scheduled Tasks Deleted After CF 11 - Update 16

[sdsinc_pmascari]

We installed the CF11 Update 16 today and it deleted all our scheduled tasks.  Unfortunately, we didn't notice until we installed on 3 other servers.  All tasks gone.

We tried to restore with a recent CF Archive from the Admin.  Did not restore tasks.

It looks like the system did create a backup of the old tasks file: neo-chron.bak.

However, when we rename this back to neo-chron.xml and restart the server, CF replaces it with a blank file and makes a backup again.

Any help or ideas?  Looks like we need to crawl through the XML and re-enter tasks by hand?

Logs look to show Null Point Exception:

"Error","localhost-startStop-1","02/15/19","14:14:25",,""

java.lang.NullPointerException

    at coldfusion.runtime.Cast._boolean(Cast.java:323)

    at coldfusion.scheduling.ScheduleTagData.setAttributes(ScheduleTagData.java:1309)

    at coldfusion.scheduling.ScheduleTagData.<init>(ScheduleTagData.java:349)

    at coldfusion.scheduling.CronServiceImpl.updateTasks(CronServiceImpl.java:291)

    at coldfusion.scheduling.CronServiceImpl.load(CronServiceImpl.java:246)

    at coldfusion.server.ServiceBase.start(ServiceBase.java:59)

    at coldfusion.scheduling.CronServiceImpl.start(CronServiceImpl.java:186)

    at coldfusion.server.CFService.setupCron(CFService.java:328)

    at coldfusion.server.CFService.start(CFService.java:599)

    at coldfusion.server.j2ee.CFStartUpServlet.startCFService(CFStartUpServlet.java:553)

    at coldfusion.server.j2ee.CFStartUpServlet.init(CFStartUpServlet.java:505)

    at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:158)

    at coldfusion.bootstrap.ClassloaderHelper.initServletClass(ClassloaderHelper.java:121)

    at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.init(BootstrapServlet.java:59)

    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1230)

    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1174)

    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1066)

    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5409)

    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5707)

    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:145)

    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1702)

    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1692)

    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)

    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)

    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)

    at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[sdsinc_pmascari]

We uninstalled Update 16 and re-inserted the backup of the neo-cron.xml file.  Scheduled tasks are back.

What's the deal, Adobe?

[Priyank Shrivastava.]

Hi,

We encountered this problem with this update and it is deleting the task. You have to take the back up of neo-cron.xml and replace it after the update. We have listed this issue as Known issue because we encountered this after the release.

https://coldfusion.adobe.com/2019/02/coldfusion-2018-release-update-2-coldfusion-2016-release-update...

We will come up with a solution soon and we will share more details.

Thanks,

Priyank

[sdsinc_pmascari]

Priyank,

Thanks for the reply but, no, we can't use the backup of neo-cron.  When we try to apply that, CF just replaces it with a blank XML file again.

Only solution was to uninstall Update 16

[Priyank Shrivastava.]

Hi,

I understand this is frustrating. But there is a workaround, I copied Charlie's comment from the blog and just putting it here.

"Workaround – Manually edit a backup copy of the neo-crons.xml adding <var name=’clustered’><boolean value=’false’/></var> to each job and then replace the wiped out copy with this one and restart the services. If it gets wiped out again you missed a job. You can also rebuild all of your jobs by hand too."

Thanks,

Priyank