I have a client with a merge replication setup that has 5 different subscribers and a ton of articles. While this setup is less than optimal, it has been running for quite a while. It is finicky at times, but still manages to run...
Thursday we started experiencing issues with replication, and now the ONLY agent profile that will even attempt to start the replication is the "Verbose History Agent Profile". All other profiles just sit on the initialization step and never really do anything...
Even using the verbose profile we have only been able to successfully restart 2 of the 5.
The only change I know of is that on Wednesday morning we implemented triggers on about 20 of the published tables which write to a log table structure that does not exist on the subscriber. However, we have already had this same approach implemented on 9 tables since February, without any issues. I have deleted all of the triggers on the publisher anyway just in case.
Still no luck... Anyone ever seen anything similar to this?