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Author  Topic  asjan Starting Member 1 Post Posted - 2005-04-18 : 06:06:29 Hi I am getting this error on a server that acts as subscriber. stop and start of agents don't help. manual cleanup returns 0 rows to clean. never happend on this server. connectivty is 100 % both ways. please help ! [4/18/2005 11:59:20 AM]BRAAMPDC1\ICAS2000.HO_Master: {call sp_MSgetversion } [4/18/2005 11:59:20 AM]BRAAMPDC1\ICAS2000.distribution: {call sp_MShelp_subscriber_info (N'BRAAMPDC1\ICAS2000', N'EASTSRV3')} Connecting to Subscriber 'EASTSRV3.ICASData' Server: EASTSRV3 DBMS: Microsoft SQL Server Version: 08.00.0760 user name: dbo API conformance: 2 SQL conformance: 1 transaction capable: 2 read only: N identifier quote char: " non_nullable_columns: 1 owner usage: 31 max table name len: 128 max column name len: 128 need long data len: Y max columns in table: 1024 max columns in index: 16 max char literal len: 524288 max statement len: 524288 max row size: 524288 [4/18/2005 11:59:27 AM]EASTSRV3.ICASData: {call sp_MSgetversion } Percent Complete: 2 Connecting to Subscriber 'EASTSRV3' Percent Complete: 3 Retrieving publication information Percent Complete: 4 Retrieving subscription information Percent Complete: 4 The merge process is cleaning up meta data in database 'HO_Master'. Percent Complete: 4 The merge process cleaned up 0 row(s) in MSmerge_genhistory, 0 row(s) in MSmerge_contents, and 0 row(s) in MSmerge_tombstone. Percent Complete: 4 The merge process is cleaning up meta data in database 'ICASData'. The merge process could not perform retention-based meta data cleanup in database 'ICASData'. Percent Complete: 0 The merge process could not perform retention-based meta data cleanup in database 'ICASData'. Percent Complete: 0 Category:NULL Source: Merge Replication Provider Number: -2147199467 Message: The merge process could not perform retention-based meta data cleanup in database 'ICASData'. Percent Complete: 0 Category:COMMAND Source: Failed Command Number: 0 Message: {call sp_mergemetadataretentioncleanup(?, ?, ?)} Percent Complete: 0 Category:SQLSERVER Source: EASTSRV3 Number: 11 Message: General network error. Check your network documentation.