Publisher/Subscriber db: SQL 2008 R2, 2000 compatability mode
Distributor database is on separate server.
(note: There is another database on this instance that is running replication without error, it is not in compatibility mode)
After snapshot agent finishes, the log reader agent starts and fails immediately with this error in the Agent Job.
Then I get a SEV20 error and stack dump in the error logs.
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Date 6/12/2014 3:12:26 PM
Log Job History (SERVER\INSTANCE-DBNAME-43)
Step ID 2
Server ######RT02
Job Name SERVER\INSTANCE-DBNAME-43
Step Name Run agent.
Duration 00:00:01
Sql Severity 0
Sql Message ID 0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted 0
Message
2014-06-12 20:12:26.302 Copyright (c) 2008 Microsoft Corporation
2014-06-12 20:12:26.302 Microsoft SQL Server Replication Agent: logread
2014-06-12 20:12:26.302
2014-06-12 20:12:26.302 The timestamps prepended to the output lines are expressed in terms of UTC time.
2014-06-12 20:12:26.302 User-specified agent parameter values:
-Publisher SERVER\INSTANCE
-PublisherDB DBNAME
-Distributor ######RT02
-DistributorSecurityMode 1
-Continuous
-XJOBID 0x8958DF32810C6849B28A037A8FF8DD92
-XJOBNAME SERVER\INSTANCE-DBNAME-43
-XSTEPID 2
-XSUBSYSTEM LogReader
-XSERVER SERVER\INSTANCE
-XCMDLINE 0
-XCancelEventHandle 0000000000000F98
-XParentProcessHandle 0000000000000F34
2014-06-12 20:12:26.459 Parameter values obtained from agent profile:
-pollinginterval 5000
-historyverboselevel 1
-logintimeout 15
-querytimeout 1800
-readbatchsize 500
-readbatchsize 500000
2014-06-12 20:12:26.493 Status: 4096, code: 20024, text: 'Initializing'.
2014-06-12 20:12:26.493 The agent is running. Use Replication Monitor to view the details of this agent session.
2014-06-12 20:12:27.885 Status: 0, code: 20011, text: 'The process could not execute 'sp_replcmds' on 'SERVER\INSTANCE'.'.
2014-06-12 20:12:27.886 The process could not execute 'sp_replcmds' on 'SERVER\INSTANCE'.
2014-06-12 20:12:27.886 Status: 0, code: 21, text: 'Warning: Fatal error 3624 occurred at Jun 12 2014 3:12PM. Note the error and time, and contact your system administrator.'.
2014-06-12 20:12:27.886 Status: 0, code: 22037, text: 'The process could not execute 'sp_replcmds' on 'SERVER\INSTANCE'.'.
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I've tried removing replication and setting it back up again, restarting SQL, and restarting the server itself.
Let me know if you need any more information to help troubleshoot. Thanks.
Please help, thanks.