Article - CS63378

What are the reasons for failure to publish Creo Parametric files with the error "Failure to retrieve <filename> name <name> (err = -4)" for or "...(err = -1)" in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 18-Dec-2024   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 9.1 to 12.1
  • Creo View Adapters 1.0 to 11.1
  • Creo Parametric 1.0 to 11.0
  • Pro/ENGINEER and Creo Elements/Pro Wildfire 4.0 to Wildfire 5.0
  • ProductView Adapters and Creo Elements/View Adapters 12.1 to 13.0
  • Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)

Description

  • Failed to publish Creo Parametric assemblies (.asm), parts (.prt) or drawings (.drw)
  • The affected CAD File can be added to workspace and opened in linked session, but the regeneration remains in yellow status
  • Error message is reported in worker.log:
Failure to retrieve <model> name <name> (err = -4)       - for parts and assemblies
Failure to retrieve <drawing> name <name> (err = -1)    - for drawings
  • New Creo drawings created using Save As fails to publish
  • Getting retrieval error through initiating publishing with one user account only
  • Publishing fails with the error in MethodServer, BackGroundMethodServer log:
    • ERROR [ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8010-exec-4] com.ptc.windchill.uwgm.proesrv.rrc.RRCContentHelper "user" - RRCContentHelper.setPVContentUrl :: Cannot obtain content URLs (wt.content.contentResource/65) wt.access.NotAuthorizedException: ATTENTION: Secured Action. File download access denied. You do not have permission to download this file.
      at wt.content.ContentDownloadAccessDelegate.checkAccess(ContentDownloadAccessDelegate.java:151)
      at wt.content.ContentDownloadAccessHelper.hasDownloadAccess(ContentDownloadAccessHelper.java:330)
      at wt.content.ContentDownloadAccessHelper.checkDownloadAccess(ContentDownloadAccessHelper.java:120)
      at wt.fv.master.RedirectDownload.getApplicationDataHTTPURLs(RedirectDownload.java:2617)
  • Publishing fails with error in the Publish Monitor Job Details:
Failure to retrieve <Shared_Folder>/w1i1j1/xxx.drw name xxx (err = -1)
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