>You are going to truncate production database log in order to drop distribution database????

No- a development database log. =)

FWIW- I have never actually needed to apply a transaction log backup...

Follow-up:

If you should ever face this issue, for us it had a rather cryptic cause.

If you use @del_cmd = "NONE" then replication will not create the delete service routines for...

My case was coming from restoring a database backup of a replicated database onto a system that wasn't using replication- there were no subscribers to drop, no replication to disable.

Can't say if it worked for them but it worked for me!

-- first tell repl it can let go of what it has already saved

exec sp_repldone

@xactid = NULL

,@xact_segno = NULL

,@numtrans...