Error and Warning Messages

Errors and warning messages in the Replication Server error log.

The format of messages other than informational messages is:

severity, date. ERROR #error_number thread_name(context) - source_file(line) message

If the message is a warning, “ERROR” in the format becomes “WARNING.”

The parameters are:

severity – W, E, H, F, or N, corresponding to the message types in the Replication Server error log.
date – date and time that the error occurred.
error_number – Replication Server error number.
thread_name – name of the Replication Server thread that received the error. See Replication Server Administration Guide Volume 1 > Replication Server Technical Overview for details about Replication Server threads.
context – provides some information about the thread’s context at the time the error occurred.
source_file – program file in the Replication Server source code where the error was reported.
line – line number in the program file in the Replication Server source code where the error was reported.
RS_language – specifies the language for the Replication Server message.
message – full text of a message from a Replication Server, in the language specified in the RS_language configuration parameter. Some messages also include a message from a data server, or one of the component libraries that Replication Server uses.

Note: Replication Server places question marks (?) in messages when specific information is not available. For example, if an error occurs during initialization, Replication Server may not yet have completed some internal structures, so it prints question marks in place of information it has not yet collected.

This is a Replication Server error log entry for a data server:

E. 95/11/01 05:30:52. ERROR #1028 DSI(SYDNEY_DS.pubs2)
- dsiqmint.c(3522)Message from server:
 Message: 2812, State: 4, Severity: 16 --
 ’Stored procedure ’upd_authors’ not found.

H. 95/11/01 05:30:53. THREAD FATAL ERROR #5049
DSI(SYDNEY_DS.pubs2) - dsiqmint.c(3529)
The DSI thread for database ’SYDNEY_DS.pubs2’ is being
shutdown because of error action mapped from data server
error ’2812’. The error was caused by output command ’1’
mapped from source command ’2’ of the transaction.

The messages indicate that Adaptive Server returned error number 2812, causing Replication Server to take the stop_replication action. You can assign other actions for data server errors.