0x80070057 sharepoint variations

On page http://ServerName/_Layouts/VariationLogs.aspx , when I ran Timer Job "Variations Create Hierarchies Job Definition" , I was getting the error ( Under Failures column) :

The Variations Create Hierarchies job failed with the following error message: <nativehr>0x80070057</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>.

I was getting below mentioned errors in ULS logs :

Process : OWSTimer.exe
Area : Web Content Management
Category : Site Management
Level : Unexpected


CreateVariationHierarchiesJob catches Exception. System.ArgumentException: <nativehr>0x80070057</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetFileOrFolderObject(String strUrl) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CommonUtilities.GetFileFromUrl(String url, SPWeb web) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingPage.get_Layout() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingPage.set_Layout(PageLayout value) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.DeploymentWrapper.CreateVariantPage(PublishingPage sourcePage, PublishingWeb targetArea, String destPageWebRelativeUrl, String pageLayoutName, String title, String
description, Boolean copyResources, Boolean enforceMajorVersion, SPWeb& webToClose, PageLayout[] targetAreaAvailablePageLayouts) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingPage.CreateVariationInner
(VariationLabel varlabel, String pageLayoutName, String destPageName, String title, String description, Boolean copyResources, Boolean overrideStopUpdate, Boolean isCreateHierarchies, Boolean
enforceMajorVersion, Boolean skipIdentityTargetConflictChecks, Boolean stopAutoSpawnAfterDelete, Boolean sendNotificationEmail, LongRunningOperationJob lroLogger, PublishingWeb targetArea, PageLayout[]
targetAreaAvailablePageLayouts, Hashtable variationPageLayoutTable) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingPage.CreateVariationAuto(CachedVariationSettings variationSettings, VariationLabel
varlabel, Boolean isCreateHierarchies, Boolean enforceMajorVersion, Boolean skipIdentityTargetConflictChecks, LongRunningOperationJob lroLogger, PublishingWeb targetArea, PageLayout[]
targetAreaAvailablePageLayouts, Hashtable variationPageLayoutTable) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.<>c__DisplayClass3e.<CreateVariationsDeepForCurrentPages>b__38(SPListItem item) at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ContentIterator.ProcessItem(SPListItem item, Boolean fIncludeFolderItems, MonitoredScopeWrapper monitoredScopeWrapper, ItemProcessor itemProcessor, ItemProcessorErrorCallout
errorCallout) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ContentIterator.ProcessItems(SPListItemCollection items, Boolean fIncludeFolderItems, Boolean fIterateInReverseOrder, MonitoredScopeWrapper
monitoredScopeWrapper, ItemProcessor itemProcessor, ItemProcessorErrorCallout errorCallout) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ContentIterator.ProcessItems(SPListItemCollection items, Boolean
fIncludeFolderItems, Boolean fIterateInReverseOrder, ItemProcessor itemProcessor, ItemProcessorErrorCallout errorCallout) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.<>c__DisplayClass3e.<CreateVariationsDeepForCurrentPages>b__37(SPListItemCollection items) at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ContentIterator.ProcessListItems(SPList list, SPQuery query, ItemsProcessor itemsProcessor, ItemsProcessorErrorCallout errorCallout) at
Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ContentIterator.ProcessListItems(SPList list, String strQuery, UInt32 rowLimit, Boolean fRecursive, SPFolder folder, ItemsProcessor itemsProcessor,
ItemsProcessorErrorCallout errorCallout) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ContentIterator.ProcessListItems(SPList list, String strQuery, UInt32 rowLimit, Boolean fRecursive, ItemsProcessor
itemsProcessor, ItemsProcessorErrorCallout errorCallout) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.CreateVariationsDeepForCurrentPages(CachedVariationSettings variationSettings, VariationLabel
varlabel, Boolean isCreateHierarchies, LongRunningOperationJob lroLogger, List`1 errors, Hashtable variationPageLayoutTable) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.<>c__DisplayClass34.<CreateVariationsDeepForChildPages>b__30(SPWeb web) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.CultureUtility.RunWithCultureScope
(CodeToRunWithCultureScope code) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ContentIterator.ProcessSite(SPSite site, Boolean fSetThreadCulture, WebProcessor webProcessor, WebProcessorErrorCallout errorCallout)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.ContentIterator.ProcessSite(SPSite site, WebProcessor webProcessor, WebProcessorErrorCallout errorCallout) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.<>c__DisplayClass34.<CreateVariationsDeepForChildPages>b__2f(SPSite rootSite) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Utilities.TimerJobUtility.ProcessSite(SPSite site,
SiteProcessor siteProcessor) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.CreateVariationsDeepForChildPages(CachedVariationSettings variationSettings, VariationLabel varlabel, Boolean
isCreateHierarchies, LongRunningOperationJob lroLogger, List`1 errors, Hashtable variationPageLayoutTable) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.CreateVariationsDeepForChildren
(CachedVariationSettings variationSettings, PublishingWeb sourceParentPubWeb, VariationLabel varlabel, Boolean isCreateHierarchies, LongRunningOperationJob lroLogger, List`1 errors) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingWeb.CreateVariationsDeep(CachedVariationSettings variationSettings, ReadOnlyCollection`1 varLabels, Boolean isCreateHierarchies, Boolean recurse,
LongRunningOperationJob lroLogger, List`1 errors) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.CreateVariationHierarchiesJobDefinition.PerformVariationsSpawn(SPWorkItem workItem, SPWeb currentWeb,
CachedVariationSettings variationSettings)

Process : OWSTimer.exe
Area : Web Content Management
Category : Site Management
Level : Unexpected


PublishingWeb::CreateVariationsDeepForCurrentPages caught Exception at item 'Pages/Folder1/Folder2/PageName.aspx' with : <nativehr>0x80070057</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>

Process : OWSTimer.exe
Area : Web Content Management
Category : Publishing
Level : Monitorable


GetFileFromUrl: ArgumentException when attempting get file Url http://OldServerName/_catalogs/masterpage/PageLayoutFileName.aspx <nativehr>0x80070057</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetFileOrFolderObject(String strUrl) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CommonUtilities.GetFileFromUrl(String url, SPWeb web)

Process : OWSTimer.exe
Area : SharePoint Foundation
Category : General
Level : High


<nativehr>0x80070057</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>

Process : OWSTimer.exe
Area : Web Content Management
Category : Site Management
Level : Unexpected


PublishingWeb::CreateVariationsDeepForChildPages() caught Exception at web 'http://NewServerName/es-LA/Subsite1' with : <nativehr>0x80070057</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>

Process : OWSTimer.exe
Area : Web Content Management
Category : Site Management
Level : Unexpected


DeploymentWrapper::CreateVariantPage() on sourcePage = 'Pages/Folder1/Folder2/PageName.aspx', targetWeb = 'http://NewServerName/es-LA/Subsite1' catches an unexpected exception: System.ArgumentException:
<nativehr>0x80070057</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack> at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequestInternalClass.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId,
Int32& plType, Object& pvarFileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.GetMetadataForUrl(String bstrUrl, Int32 METADATAFLAGS, Guid& pgListId, Int32& plItemId, Int32& plType, Object&
pvarFileOrFolder) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPWeb.GetFileOrFolderObject(String strUrl) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.CommonUtilities.GetFileFromUrl(String url, SPWeb web) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingPage.get_Layout() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.PublishingPage.set_Layout(PageLayout value) at
Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing.Internal.DeploymentWrapper.CreateVariantPage(PublishingPage sourcePage, PublishingWeb targetArea, String destPageWebRelativeUrl, String pageLayoutName, String title, String
description, Boolean copyResources, Boolean enforceMajorVersion, SPWeb& webToClose, PageLayout[] targetAreaAvailablePageLayouts).

Possible Reason :

1. You have recently moved your content db from an old server , the display names for page layouts seems to be updated ( even on mouse hover) but internally older server name is being referred.
2. Even after updating page layout via object model , publishing cache is not flushed.
Possible Resolution:

1.

For all the Publishing pages under source variation , update property "PublishingPageLayout" to http://NewServerName/_catalogs/masterpage/PageLayoutFileName.aspx [ old value
http://OldServerName/_catalogs/masterpage/PageLayoutFileName.aspx ]
page.ListItem.Properties["PublishingPageLayout"] = newPageLayout;

2. Flush object cache at http://ServerName/_Layouts/objectcachesettings.aspx
3. IISRESET
4. Restart owstimer.exe
5. Under http://ServerName/_Layouts/VariationLabels.aspx again schedule create Hierarchies.
6. Have a cup of tea.
7. Start the Timerjob 'Variations Create Hierarchies Job Definition’ manually or wait for the schedule.
8. Keep an eye on http://ServerName/_Layouts/VariationLogs.aspx