Faulty storage, memory issues, or filesystem corruption can corrupt the trail file. In such cases, the error is a symptom rather than the root cause.
A typical error stack in the ggserr.log looks like: ogg-01184 expected 4 bytes but got 0 bytes in trail
2025-03-23 10:15:32 ERROR OGG-01184 trail file ./dirdat/rt000001, expected 4 bytes but got 0 bytes in trail. Faulty storage, memory issues, or filesystem corruption can
Physical media errors can also cause this issue, especially if you are reading from or writing to removable media. ogg-01184 expected 4 bytes but got 0 bytes in trail
This creates a new trail file (e.g., increments sequence from Reposition the Pump to the start of this new sequence: ALTER PUMP , EXTSEQNO , EXTRBA Use code with caution. Copied to clipboard Common Causes to Investigate Network Failures
Always use the STOP command in GGSCI rather than killing OS processes.