During a promotion, Build Manager may time out waiting for the background process. You may see the below error in the promotion log:
Error: Background process did not respond.
Check 'Don't prompt for a password from other Notes based programs' user
security settings on line 1272 in PROMOTEDATABASEINBACKGROUND
If this is the case. Please note that Build Manager may be waiting for a password to be entered within the background process. You need to go to the User Security settings in your promoting Notes client. On the 'Security Basics' tab, you will see a checkbox for "Don't prompt for a password from other Notes-Based programs". Please check off this box and attempt your promotion again.
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