Field $Readers deleted sporadically by replication

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Subject: Field $Readers deleted sporadically by replication

Feedback Type: Problem

Product Area: Domino Server

Technical Area: Functionality

Platform: ALL

Release: All

Reproducible: Not reproducible

Hi Lotus fellows,

meanwhile 4 of our customers have a strange problem with our application when using it in a clustered Domino 8 or 8.5 environment.
After updating Domino from < 8 to 8.x the following happens (example for cluster of 2 Domino servers):

At first everything seems to be fine. After a while (a few days or several weeks) some documents in our application are invisible for the admins on one of the servers.
Reason: The $Readers field has disappeared in those documents! (In our application almost all forms are readable for members of [Admin], so this is part of the design-elements!)
The corresponding document on the other server still has that $Readers field with the correct values. But from this moment, this document pair is not being replicated any more! There are no error messages by replicator.

So far known:
- If this phenomenon starts occuring, more and more documents are affected, which means, the error speed seems to increase.
- So far it's only known in cluster environments with Domino 8.x
- The same application was running fine for several years now in R6 and R7 cluster environments.
- Only one of our forms is affected (all other forms with same $Readers fields are never affected)
- It appears on ODS 43, 48 and 51
- After replacing the DB replica with the corrupted documents, the application is running fine again for several days or even weeks, then the problems start again.

Any suggestions out hints?

Feedback number WEBB877HSA created by ~Wendy Quetapul on 07/09/2010

Status: Open
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