# Error" exceptionMessage="Failed to acquire lock"

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**Created:** [September 12, 2023, 2:22am UTC](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/error-exceptionmessage-failed-to-acquire-lock/4487 "2023-09-12T02:22:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![harilam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8dc957/32.png) [@harilam](https://forum.genieacs.com/u/harilam)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2023, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/error-exceptionmessage-failed-to-acquire-lock/4487/3 "2023-11-30T09:07:33Z")

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> [@Cwmp service failed with "Database clock skew too great" log](https://forum.genieacs.com/t/cwmp-service-failed-with-database-clock-skew-too-great-log/4635/5):
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> Hi Felipe, I think I already figured out the problem with my production environment. My production run a cron job to get all devices’ information every 2 hours via NBI and this is the main cause of the exceptionName=“Error” exceptionMessage=“Database clock skew too great” and exceptionName=“MongoNotConnectedError” exceptionMessage=“MongoClient must be connected to perform this operation”. I just add some delay and reduce the number of devices / each request from my cron job and now problem di…

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