diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 7b8deb96..730f3e88 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -164,3 +164,4 @@ stixcore/data/publish/
 stixcore/data/test/products/end2end/
 monitor_status.json
 stixcore/data/test/idb/v2.26.38/idb.sqlite
+.python-version
diff --git a/stixcore/io/RidLutManager.py b/stixcore/io/RidLutManager.py
index 337dc574..51a5f983 100644
--- a/stixcore/io/RidLutManager.py
+++ b/stixcore/io/RidLutManager.py
@@ -70,9 +70,13 @@ def get_reason(self, rid):
         str
             verbal description of the request purpose
         """
-        request = self.rid_lut.loc[rid]
-        reason = " ".join(np.atleast_1d(request['description']))
-        return reason
+        try:
+            request = self.rid_lut.loc[rid]
+            reason = " ".join(np.atleast_1d(request['description']))
+            return reason
+        except IndexError:
+            logger.warning("can't get request purpose: no request founds for rid: {rid}")
+            return ""
 
     def get_scaling_factor(self, rid):
         """Gets the trigger descaling factor connected to the BSD request.
@@ -165,7 +169,7 @@ def read_rid_lut(cls, file, update=False):
                     # the stix datacenter API is throttled to 2 calls per second
                     time.sleep(0.5)
             except Exception:
-                logger.error("RID API ERROR", exc_info=True)
+                logger.warning("RID API ERROR", exc_info=True)
 
             rid_lut = unique(rid_lut, silent=True)
             ascii.write(rid_lut, file, overwrite=True, delimiter=",", quotechar='"')
diff --git a/stixcore/processing/pipeline.py b/stixcore/processing/pipeline.py
index 24163fec..22969ace 100644
--- a/stixcore/processing/pipeline.py
+++ b/stixcore/processing/pipeline.py
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ def emit(self, record):
         """Called in case of a logging event."""
         self.allright = False
         self.error = record
+        self.err_file.touch()
 
     def __enter__(self):
         return self
@@ -159,7 +160,7 @@ def __exit__(self, type, value, traceback):
         logging.getLogger().removeHandler(self.fh)
         PipelineStatus.instance.last_tm = (self.tm_file,  datetime.now())
         PipelineStatus.instance.current_tm = (None,  datetime.now())
-        if not self.allright:
+        if not self.allright or self.err_file.exists():
             shutil.copyfile(self.log_file, self.err_file)
             PipelineStatus.instance.last_error = (self.tm_file,  datetime.now(),
                                                   self.error, self.err_file)