How to clear a pending commit?

A user wants to edit the configuration and commit applied changes in the configuration, but the system rejects the changes as well as the commit due to a pending commit (commit at command).  The following message is displayed:

[edit]
georg@warsaw# commit
error: Another commit is pending


 

If you need to make any changes before the scheduled commit, you can use the command clear system commit.

The example below shows how a commit at can cause problems and how to clear any pending commits:

• A user makes some configuration changes and issues a commit at for a certain date
  
    georg@warsaw> configure
    Entering configuration mode
  
    [edit]
    georg@warsaw# show system login message
    message " \n\n ********** test ********** \n\n";
  
    [edit]
    georg@warsaw# commit at "2006-12-31 23:59:59"
    configuration check succeeds
    commit at will be executed at 2006-12-31 23:59:59 CET
    The configuration has been changed but not committed
    Exiting configuration mode
  
  
• Before the commit has taken place, the configuration needs to be further changed. This fails due to the pending commit:
  
    georg@warsaw> configure
    Entering configuration mode
    Users currently editing the configuration:
    georg terminal d0 (pid 15099) on since 2006-07-27 09:23:28 CEST
    commit-at
    The configuration has been changed but not committed
  
    [edit]
    georg@warsaw# set firewall family inet filter urgent term 1 then accept
    error: configuration database locked by:
    georg terminal d0 (pid 15099) on since 2006-07-27 09:23:28 CEST, idle 00:00:38
    commit at
    error: configuration database locked by:
    georg terminal d0 (pid 15099) on since 2006-07-27 09:23:28 CEST, idle 00:00:38
    commit at
  
    [edit]
    georg@warsaw# commit
    error: Another commit is pending
  
  
• With the clear system commit command the pending commit can be cleared and the configuration changes can be committed:
  
    [edit]
    georg@warsaw# run clear system commit
    Pending commit cleared
  
    [edit]
    georg@warsaw# set firewall family inet filter urgent term 1 then accept
  
    [edit]
    georg@warsaw# set interfaces lo0 unit 0 family inet filter input urgent
  
    [edit]
    georg@warsaw# commit
    commit complete