TLOG repeatedly reporting exceptions in deleteEntriesOlderThanASN

TLOG streams errors like the following:
2016-09-28 17:26:08,008 ERROR dtm.TmAuditTlog: deleteEntriesOlderThanASNX, received incorrect result size: 0 ASN: 19
2016-09-28 17:26:08,013 ERROR dtm.TmAuditTlog: deleteEntriesOlderThanASNX retrying due to Exception:
java.lang.Exception: Wrong result size in deleteEntriesOlderThanASNX
at org.trafodion.dtm.TmAuditTlog$TlogCallable.deleteEntriesOlderThanASNX(TmAuditTlog.java:273)
at org.trafodion.dtm.TmAuditTlog$3.call(TmAuditTlog.java:2213)
at org.trafodion.dtm.TmAuditTlog$3.call(TmAuditTlog.java:2209)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
2016-09-28 17:26:08,018 ERROR dtm.TmAuditTlog: Exceeded retry attempts (0) in deleteEntriesOlderThanASNX for ASN: 19

The problem is in the refresh logic. The code is using an uninitialized variable as a loop limit, so it is unclear how many refresh iterations it might try. In this case, 0 <Exceeded retry attempts (0) >and as a consequence it repeatedly gets no results back from the server.