even though replication agent is deleted, job queues still fill up

[JS_Bournival]

We have this strange problem.  We had a flush cache replication agent on the author. It was disabled. But the associated job queue still accumulate a lot of job, these job obviously failed, and they seem to retry again and again.

Here's a log entry:

10.04.2015 00:00:29.640 *ERROR* [pool-6-thread-18-com/day/cq/replication/job/flush_dispn1(com/day/cq/replication/job/flush_dispn1)] com.day.cq.replication.impl.AgentManagerImpl Job contains agent which is not started: flush_dispn1. waiting ReplicationJob{event=org.osgi.service.event.Event [topic=com/day/cq/replication/job/flush_dispn1]}

Now, since it's unused, we tried deleting the replication agent, but the queue stays there, and jobs still append to it.  What can we do to get rid of this?

Thanks.

[smacdonald2008]

Take a look at this knowledge base article and trouleshooting infomation- see if they help:

https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/kb/replication-stuck.html

http://docs.adobe.com/docs/en/aem/6-0/deploy/troubleshoot-rep.html

If this is an issue not in these topics - let us know. 

[Sham_HC · Accepted solution]

Deleting agent does not clear the jobs.  Do not know your aem version to specify the exact path . Clear the job from /var/eventing/jobs or the query to find location is [1]. Clearing it should resolve your issue.

[1]   /jcr:root/var/eventing//*[@event.job.topic = 'com/day/cq/replication/job/flush_dispn1']

[JS_Bournival]

Thanks for the quick answer Scott.

Actually, since the replication agent is gone, how can I delete the queue? I looked for it in the job queue configurations, I cannot find it.

We first thought that by disabling the replication agent it might also disable the job queues, but no. We still got the logs of its attempts.

[smacdonald2008]

This may be a bug - I will have Sham look at this to see if it's known issue.