Error - Distribution Agent Failed To Create Temporary Files
Sep 17, 2014
I've been using replication for a long while now but have never come across this error. It's a basic transactional replication from ServerA to ServerB, where ServerA is also the distributor. Everything had been running fine on it until yesterday, when this error started popping up and no further transactions could be delivered.
After some quick googling I was able to determine that the distribution agent account needed write access to C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server100Com. According to the MSFT article it's because the distribution agent is running under a non-default profile. I didn't change this. However, what I did change around the time that these errors started occurring was the server's Replication Max Test Size setting. It would be far too coincidental for this to not be the cause, but what I don't understand is *why* that would have changed it.
how do I change this? It is definitely not preferable to create temp files in this directory in our environment.
I'm getting this, after upgrading from 2000 to 2005.Replication-Replication Distribution Subsystem: agent (null) failed.The subscription to publication '(null)' has expired or does notexist.The only suggestions I've seen are to dump all subscriptions. Sincewe have several dozen publications to several servers, is there adecent way to script it all out, if that's the only suggestion?Thanks in advance.
I have setup a replication and after 24 hours this are the error messages I have got:Last action; The database 'supersite' on server 'solomon' does not exist. Full error message: Could not locate entry in sysdatabases for database 'superiste'. No entry found with that name.Make sure that the name is entered correctly. Can anyone out there help me out?
I have a really odd one here. We have a production server which is running SQL 2000 Enterprise Edition SP3. It has a number of databases which are backed up nightly. Last night all of the back-up jobs failed with the following error: -
Msg 913, Sev 16: Could not find database ID ##. Database may not be activated yet or may be in transition. [SQLSTATE 42000]
The databases are in good shape - no issues to report. When I run the Agent Job code within a Query Analyser session it works fine.
When I try and re-start the back-up from the Agent Job it continues to fail with the same error.
We've got a problem with our replication. If I try to run the snapshot agent I get the message "Query for data failed". The detail view of this message shows the following:
I've got an SSIS package that I've been testing all week and it runs fine in Visual Studio. The package uses an OLE DB connection manager to access the dBase files using the Jet Provider. The dBase files are stored on a remote file share. There are a series of identical files held in different dated folders. I use a ForEach loop to move through the folder list and import the data as I go. When I deploy it to the server and try to run it, I get the following:
The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "Aloha" failed with error code 0xC0202009.
Aloha is the ConncetionManager to the dBase files. I've searched everywhere I can for ideas on how to solve this. I've made the SQL Agent Service is running under the same account I used to author the package. I've made sure that the package is using Server Storage. Everything looks like it should be working.
Can anyone give me any other items I can look into?
Hey everyone, sorry for the lame questions, but: 1) I have a transactional replication service set up. However, whenever we select a new table or column within a table to replication to the subscribers, the changes never seem to get picked up unless we make an actual change within some of the other data. Any idea why this is? Even after I've reinitialized snapshots, the new changes don't want to proprogate to teh subscribers until data is actually changed. 2) where do I need to go to manually stop and restart a a distribution agent to force these changes to be proprogated without having to change any data within the tables? Thanks
I seem to be having trouble with the distribution agent not doing what I want it to do. I have set up a few publications to run all the time but when I want to schedule a publication to run once a day this doesn't happen it defaults to run all the time. Can the distrubition agent run some publications continusly and some publications scheduled?
Please, i need some help with the replication i had configured. I have two publications to the same subscriber, one with data filters and other not. The one without data filters i have test manualy. But now after i have created the other one, the log reader says that '145 transactions with 347 commands' were delivered, but the distribution agents says that 'no replicated transactions are avaiable'. I know that have many things to be replicated, but doesn´t work. The Sql server agent is working on the distributor. There is something that can be causing this error ?????
Maybe I'm just totally not getting it, but can someone tell me how to stop/start the distribution agent? The Books Online document - "How to: Start and Stop a Replication Agent (SQL Server Management Studio)" - shows how to stop/start the Snapshot Agent, Log Reader Agent and Queue Reader Agent, but not the Distribution Agent. Is it that stopping one of these agents in turn stops the Distribution Agent. I am trying to work through how to add an article to a peer-to-peer topology and need to stop the agent as part of that.
I have a transactional replication going on from Server A to server B (Sql Server 2005)
The replication was working well till yesterday..
But now, the replicated transactions are not getting applied at the subscriber. When I see the Log reader agent, its working fine...delivering the transactions to the distributor. When I see the replication monitor status ..it says 'delivering replicated transactions'...however the number of undistriuted transactions is very high..its getting bigger and bigger..not decreasing...I dont see any errors..So my guess is the distribution agent is not working eventhough its says 'delivering replicated transactions'..Other thing is if i see the replication monitor it says status excellent...and latency as 00 ..but i dont see the latest data at the subscriber..the subscriber is way behind the publisher..
can anyone help me on this?? how do i resolve this problem??? I stopped the distribution agent and again started it..but it dint help...what should i do??
I seem to have an orphaned Distribution Agent. There is no associated Publication and the agent is sending errors. The errors would be legitimate if only I had an associated publication. I also do not have an associated Snapshot Agent.
How can I get rid of this bogus agent? I already deleted the associated job and rebooted SQL and SQLAgent but it still persists.
I have a replication Push Subscription configured that works most of the time but I get occasional errors satating that "The process could not connect to the Subscripber 'xxxx'". The details are
Login failed for user '(null)'. Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection. (Source: PYRRXNDAL341WIN (Data source); Error number: 18452)
This happens randomly and when it does fail, I can either what for the next occurence in the schedule or I can start the agent manually and it completes successfully. I can also ping the other box when it happens. I've looked at the event logs and don't see anything going on around the times the distribution agent is having the problems.
Any suggestions on where to start looking for more detail?
I have been seeing this issue for several weeks now. The distribution agent will become idle even though there is activity occurring within the replicated database. If I manually start the distribution agent, it will begin retrieving the transactions. I thought that this might be due to inactivity but I have modified the inactivity threshold and I am not receiving an actual inactive agent warning. There are no warnings -- it simply sits there and does not resume sending transactions.
Any thoughts? This is a transactional replication with a distribution agent that is run at the subscriber.
Hi,For some magical reason, my database replication has suddenly stoppedworking. I modified the publication but the Distribution agent willnot run; the snapshot does not get applied to the subscriber, andchanges made at the publisher do not get replicated.My configuration is: Transactional Replication with a 'Pull'Subscription. The Subscriber is Updateable with Immediate UpdatesOnly. All created via the SQL Server Enterprise Manager. Both thePublisher and Subscriber are on the same server. I'm running SQLServer 2000 (8.00.760 SP3), on Windows 2000 Server (5.0 (2195)).I manually run the snapshop agent. It runs fine with the status'Succeeded' and the Last Action is 'A Snapshot of X article(s) wasgenerated'.When I look at the distribution agent, things start to get a bitconfusing in ( <SERVERNAME>/Replication Monitor/ Publishers/<SERVERNAME?>/ Publication/ Subscription), the status staysconstantly at 'Never Started'. All other columns are either blank or0. When I right click over the subscription, both Start Synchronisingand Stop Synchronising are NOT greyed out. If I click on either StartSynchronising or Stop Synchronising (absolutely) nothing happens(except the mouse turns 'busy' for a fraction of a second). There areno error messages.I added -output c:sqlout.txt -outputverboselevel 3 to thedistribution agent command. C:sqlout.txt did not get created.It worked fine up to a couple of days ago. I'm not sure exactly whatcaused the problem, as I made a few changes at the same time. Thechanges included: adding a new transactional publication, adding morearticles to an existing transaction publication, and adding a mergepublication. I've tried to go back to the set up before I made thechanges, even disabling replication and starting again from scratch.Still the problem persists.The owner of the distribution agent has dbo permissions in both thepublishing and subscribing database. Under 'Publisher and DistributorProperties' I've set the 'Replication Agent Connection to Publisher'and 'Agent Connection to the Subscriber' both to Use SQL ServerAuthentication, both with the same account that has dbo permissions inboth publishing and subscribing database.Has anybody come across this problem before? Can anybody make anysuggestions? Thanks in advance for your help.RegardsDamian HelmeIS ManagerINTEC Engineering (UK) Ltd.
I am trying implement replication and having problem when creating push subscription to an existing transactional replication publication. The distribution agent is failing to run its job with the error:
Agent message code 14260. You do not have sufficient permission to run this command. Contact your system administrator.
I followed the http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms151868.aspx article instructions when I set the distribution agent properties
What did I miss?
The following is the step error message: Date 1/12/2007 2:30:01 PM Log Job History (105342-DB3PROD-MOMA-ArchivedTransactions-105337-DEV2-15)
Step ID 2 Server 105342-DB3PROD Job Name 105342-DB3PROD-MOMA-ArchivedTransactions-105337-DEV2-15 Step Name Run agent. Duration 00:00:00 Sql Severity 0 Sql Message ID 0 Operator Emailed Operator Net sent Operator Paged Retries Attempted 0
Message 2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 Microsoft SQL Server Replication Agent: distrib 2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 The timestamps prepended to the output lines are expressed in terms of UTC time. 2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 User-specified agent parameter values: -Subscriber 105337-DEV2 -SubscriberDB MOMA -Publisher 105342-DB3PROD -Distributor 105342-DB3PROD -DistributorSecurityMode 1 -Publication ArchivedTransactions -PublisherDB MOMA -XJOBID 0x65C41EBC553D96439BAF69E4DC3CC823 -XJOBNAME 105342-DB3PROD-MOMA-ArchivedTransactions-105337-DEV2-15 -XSTEPID 2 -XSUBSYSTEM Distribution -XSERVER 105342-DB3PROD -XCMDLINE 0 -XCancelEventHandle 00000000000006E8 2007-01-12 19:30:01.258 Startup Delay: 214 (msecs) 2007-01-12 19:30:01.477 Connecting to Distributor '105342-DB3PROD' 2007-01-12 19:30:01.618 Agent message code 14260. You do not have sufficient permission to run this command. Contact your system administrator.
Replication Distribution Agent often dies with the following log entry. At that hour little is ever going on so I am surprised that the error occurs.
Failed Job -> JobName: Instance1-DB1-Instance2-33, StepName: Run agent., Message: Timeout expired. NOTE: The step was retried the requested number of times (10) without succeeding. The step failed..
Hi, We have 32 individual publications setup on SQL 2000 and have 32 distribution agent running against it. I think each distribution agent opens a process called distrib.exe in Windows task Mgr.
Problem I'm having is that these 32 distribution agents are taking up fair amount of memory 1/2 gig and each process seem to be ever increasing in memory usage so I suspect a memory leak?
Is there something I can do to fix this problem? I don't want to upgrade memory as we already have over 1 1/2 gigs on this machine and it would not be feasible if we have a memory leak.
We have quite a lot of Transactional replication, and over the past few weeks it had become quite slow. I spent the last few days trying to resolve the problem and found that a Push subscription was delivering transactions at about 50/sec and a Pull subscription was delivering at around 700/sec.
This test was run on the Same publication, same subscriber so hardware and links are all the same, the only difference was the type of subscription. I've since changed a few of our subscriptions for the larger publications and have found they run quicker than previously.
Has anyone else seen this behavour and is there a valid reason why this would occur. The distributor and subscriber are both running SQL2005 SP1 and the publisher is SQL2000 SP4.
If anyone could shed some light on this it would be appreciated.
I have a package with a number of script components. All are set "PreCompile=True".
Within a Sequence Container I have a set of five script tasks each followed by an Execute Process Task. Each pair is linked but the five pairs are independent (hope this makes sense).
The first pair executed successfully but the other four all failed with the "Script files failed to load" error.
Anyone have a clue why this might happen or what I might change to solve the problem?
The package is scheduled under SS Agent so I'm currently thinking of taking these steps out of SSIS and putting them into the job. Not ideal but at least I can have some confidence that it will work.
When the distribution agent runs trying to apply the snapshot at the subscriber I get the following error 20253 sql 2005
End of file reached , terminator missing or field data incomplete in SQL 2005
Consult the BOL for more information on the bcp utility and its supported options.
To obtain an error file with details on the errors encountered when initializing the subscribing table, execute the bcp command that appears below. Consult the BOL for more information on the bcp utility and its supported options.
We have replication setup on a sql server 2000. We encountered issue that the distribution agent goes down (distrib.exe stop running) in the event of network connection broken. We would like to know:
is this the expected result that the distribution agent will go down in the event of communication failure between the distribution server and subscriber server? if not, is there a way to programmatically control and restart the agent? Is there any sp in SQL server which can monitor the replication communication error message? is there any sp in SQL server which can be run to restart the agent? For the best practice, what do you think we can do to achieve an €˜event-driven€™ kind of mechanism so when an communication breaks, the agent can be restarted by the triggered event (or at least a simple way to automatically restart)?
Replication-Distribution: Task 'CAServer_Page_VAServer_InPage' failed. 3700[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server] Login Failed - User: Reason: Not associated with a trusted SQL Server connection.
I checked under the SQL Security Manager, View, SA Privilege and my sqlexecutivent login is set up as:
CAServersqlexecutivent sa
Thanks in advance for any tips you can give me with this. Both servers are set up in a workgroup. We are not using Domains.
Also, should my table already exist on the Subscribing Server?
I've got three files (sql 2005 std edition x64) that were downloaded from the volume license software distribution download site. One appears to be the SP2 (SW_CD_NTRL_SQL_Svr_2005SP2_64Bit_X64_English_1_X13-36347.EXE). But the other two I can't figure out how to handle. I've unzipped them both (SW_CD_SQL_Svr_Standard_Edtn_2005_64Bit_X64_English_1_x64_MLF_X11-57664.EXE SW_CD_SQL_Svr_Standard_Edtn_2005_64Bit_X64_English_2_x64_MLF_X11-57665.EXE) and they appear to have differences in what they contain, BUT there are no instructions on how to proceed with the install. I'm guessing one of them is the 32 bit versions of the management tools that still run in 32 bit mode and the other is the server. The readme's in both are the same. There are no directions on what to do or how to proceed with the installation. I've started both installs just to get far enough to see that they both want to install prerequisite software but neither tells me that this is 64 bit prerequisite. They look identical to that point.
Please point me in the right direction for some instructions on how to install this. I've installed SQL hundreds of times, but this one has be stumped on the proper process.
I haven't found the definitive answer on how or if this can be done without removing replication. I'm thinking ALTER DATABASE modify_file is the way to go. Anybody know if this will work or a better way to go about it?
We have an existing code base that makes use of SQL CLR. When trying to run against SQL Server 2014, we're receiving this error:
Error 6517: Failed to create AppDomain "xxxx.dbo[runtime].175". Could not load file or assembly 'System.Xml, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' or one of its dependencies. Not enough storage is available to process this command. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070008)
I can reproduce this error on two machines, both with 16GB. The error occurs when trying to run a series of tests that load a small amount of seed data into a database.Â
At first I thought that the problem might have been due to the CLR assembly being compiled against .NET 2.0. However, I've since change the assembly to compile against .NET 4.0 with no change in the results.
