Parent Package is losing a child package

I have a parent package which calls a number of child packages. Occasionally, I have one child package which starts up and appears to finish but the parent package never gets notification that the child has finished. If I view this in Management Studio's in Integration Services, I can view the packages that are running and only the parent package is running. Because it never gets control back, the next child package will never get started and the parent package will continue to run and never finish.

Any idea what could be happening?

Jarand wrote:

I have a parent package which calls a number of child packages. Occasionally, I have one child package which starts up and appears to finish but the parent package never gets notification that the child has finished. If I view this in Management Studio's in Integration Services, I can view the packages that are running and only the parent package is running. Because it never gets control back, the next child package will never get started and the parent package will continue to run and never finish.

Any idea what could be happening?

You say the child package "appears" to finish. i wonder if that is the case. Take a look at the child package's log file and see if the package container raises an OnPostExecute event (it should be the last row in the file).

-Jamie