OBIEE 11g Admin Server log fills with<EmbeddedLDAP> Error reading changelog entry (Doc ID 1578133.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Applies to:

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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