I installed OBIEE 11G in my machine and after the first restart faced this issue after which the weblogic server got shutdown.       This is because there is a lock in the WLS which has to be removed. For that go to the path   ORACLE_HOME//user_projects/domains/bifoundation_domain/servers/AdminServer/tmp and delete the file.   When you later start the services its going to work fine. Continue reading Error: BEA-141281, unable to get file lock, will retry … – (Solved)