OBIEE 11g Admin Server log fills with<EmbeddedLDAP> Error reading changelog entry

(Doc ID 1578133.1)

Last updated on MARCH 08, 2017

Applies to:

Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition - Version 11.1.1.6.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Weblogic Admin Server log on a clustered OBIEE 11g system fills with this error, taking up disk space

####<30-Jul-2013 14:48:37 o'clock UTC> <Error> <EmbeddedLDAP> <machine_name> <AdminServer> <VDE Replication Thread> <> <> <543e8dca5a7ad6d8:-6366c1ca:1402fed2de7:-8000-0000000000000020> <1375195717895> <BEA-000000> <Error reading changelog entry#: 0>
####<30-Jul-2013 14:48:37 o'clock UTC> <Critical> <EmbeddedLDAP> <machine_name> <AdminServer> <VDE Replication Thread> <> <> <543e8dca5a7ad6d8:-6366c1ca:1402fed2de7:-8000-0000000000000020> <1375195717895> <BEA-000000> <java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.octetstring.vde.EntryChanges.readBytes(EntryChanges.java:256)
at com.octetstring.vde.EntryChanges.<init>(EntryChanges.java:72)
at com.octetstring.vde.replication.BackendChangeLog.getChange(BackendChangeLog.java:548)
at com.octetstring.vde.replication.Replicator.run(Replicator.java:180)
at com.octetstring.vde.replication.Replication.run(Replication.java:339)

Steps in Doc ID 1325978.1 to remove changelog files were followed but did not fix the problem. Weblogic Embedded LDAP server restored from backup. This also did not help.

Changes

This began after server restart.

Cause

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