sql server replication: Hello,

I have a push subscription setup to replicate some tables. Initially, this
was setup properly and everything was working perfectly. Until recently, the
jobs started failing even though nothing was changed. The errors do not give
me enough information to find out what the problem is. Can someone give me
some hints or ideas of what to do?

FYI, I've re-generated snapshots and re-initialized the subscriptions but it
still fails.



FIRST ERROR
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Date 4/21/2005 9:01:35 AM
Log Job History (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)

Job Name XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Step ID 2
Step Name Run agent.
Message Executed as user: xxx\Administrator. The step did not generate any
output. NOTE: The step was retried the requested number of times (10)
without succeeding. The step failed.
Duration 00:05:10
Sql Severity 0
Sql Message ID 0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 10





SECOND ERROR
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Date 4/21/2005 9:06:46 AM
Log Job History (XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX)

Job Name XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Step ID 3
Step Name Detect nonlogged agent shutdown.
Message Executed as user: NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM. Replication-Replication
Distribution Subsystem: agent XXXXXXXX for XXXXXXXXXX failed. Executed as
user: Domain\Administrator. The step did not generate any output. NOTE: The
step was retried the requested number of times (10) without succeeding. The
step failed. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 14151). The step failed.
Duration 00:00:00
Sql Severity 18
Sql Message ID 14151
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged

its hard to say. Can you do logging to see if it reveals anything? also
look for dumps in case there were any access violations.

Follow these instructions to enable logging.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;312292
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Also run profiler on the subscriber, check for blocking, or any exceptions
being thrown.

Donna

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