I was facing issue, while running the AutoSPInstaller 2013 at the time of
user profile creation it fails and throw an error as,
"An update conflict has occurred, and you must re-try this action. The object
UserProfileApplication Name=User Profile Service Application was updated by
domain\admin, in the OWSTIMER (#) process on machine (#). View the tracing log
for more information about the conflict."
This can happen with any service application this is just an example.
We know several cache in SharePoint, With this issue meet me to cache
configuration cache and issue is resolved by clearing that cache.
Just giving little background about configuration cache, it is basically to
store the configuration information in the cache on the farm server to avoid sql
calls to pull information from configuration database. sometime cache corrupted
or cache information get outdated or needs to rebuilt.
So following are the steps to clear cache -(you can find this steps in many
blogs and site) still I am mentioning it
- Stop the OWSTIMER service on ALL of the MOSS servers in the farm.
- On the Index server, navigate to:
- Server 2003 location: Drive:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Application Data\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID and delete all the
XML files from the directory.
- Server 2008, 2012 location: Drive:\ProgramData\Microsoft\SharePoint\Config\GUID
and delete all the XML files from the directory.
(Note- ProgramData folder is hidden , you need to make it visible)
- Delete all the XML file in the directory. NOTE: ONLY THE XML FILES, NOT THE
.INI FILE.
- Open the cache.ini with Notepad and reset the number to 1. Save and close
the file.
- Start the OWSTIMER service on the Index server and wait for XML files to
begin to reappear in the directory.
- After you see XML files appearing on the Index server, repeat steps 2, 3 & 4
on each query server, waiting for XML files to appear before moving to
subsequent servers.
- After all of the query servers have all been cleared and new .xml files have
been generated, proceed to the WFE and Application servers in the farm,
following steps 2, 3, 4 and 5 for each remaining server.
Referred link-
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/josrod/archive/2007/12/12/clear-the-sharepoint-configuration-cache-for-timer-job-and-psconfig-errors.aspx