Server admin unresponsive, any way to fix…

Server admin unresponsive, any way to fix it?

Hi!

I have an issue with the services in Server admin, especially the iChat service. It seem to be reading settings forever, and I cannot make any changes that stick either, because as long as it's reading settings, the save button is greyed out. The service is working for users to connect to ann use. But this is crippling since I want to add a hosted domain to iChat. Other services are sluggish too when reading settings. This is a testsystem so doing a reinstall isn't really a problem, but I would like to avoid it and if possible reset the iChat service to it's default state and reconfigure it again, hopefully solving the issue. As this is a learning experience in preparation to setting this up for real, I would really like to get a solution for this without having to reinstall. Also, when it comes to SL server, there aren't really any best practices as to backing up services and it's data. A combination of several tools are suggested. TM in conjunction with CCC seem to be the best bets, but are there other solutions for a lossless restore? I have a TM backup of this machine, but how do I go about restoring a service state since there is no apparent way to restore hidden folders this way?

Anyone got the solution from your own experience?

MacBook 2008, Mac Mini 2008, Mac OS X (10.6), iPhone 3G OS 3.1.2

Posted on Dec 22, 2009 2:16 AM

Apr 20, 2010 12:59 PM in response to Eric Arnoldy

Sadly, I have the same problem on my XServe disk server. It's been happening throughout 10.6, various versions. One piece of information, which might help someone, is that right before the restart where servermgrd admits in its own log that it's not listening for connections, I get this in system.log

Apr 20 15:24:13 radium servermgrd[60301]: Got error -9806 for SSLHandshake remote address is 127.0.0.1:19163
Apr 20 15:24:13 radium servermgrd[60301]: Exception in threadListen: Socket: Connect failed
Apr 20 15:25:13 radium servermgrd[60301]: requests = (\n {\n Command = Idle;\n Module = "servermgr_mail";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-19 17:04:27 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getState;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:11 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getConnectedUsers;\n Module = "servermgr_mail";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:11 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getHistory;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:13 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getState;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:13 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getHistory;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:25 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getState;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:25 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getHistory;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:27 -0400";\n }\n)
Apr 20 15:25:13 radium servermgrd[60301]: [60301] error in getAndLockContext: flock(servermgr_info) FATAL time out
Apr 20 15:25:13 radium servermgrd[60301]: [60301] process will force-quit to avoid deadlock
Apr 20 15:25:13 radium servermgrd[60301]: requests = (\n {\n Command = Idle;\n Module = "servermgr_mail";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-19 17:04:27 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getState;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:11 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getConnectedUsers;\n Module = "servermgr_mail";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:11 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getHistory;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:13 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getState;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:13 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getHistory;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:25 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getState;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:25 -0400";\n },\n {\n Command = getHistory;\n Module = "servermgr_info";\n Timestamp = "2010-04-20 15:23:27 -0400";\n }\n)
Apr 20 15:25:13 radium servermgrd[60301]: [60301] error in getAndLockContext: flock(servermgr_info) FATAL time out
Apr 20 15:25:13 radium servermgrd[60301]: [60301] process will force-quit to avoid deadlock
Apr 20 15:25:14 radium com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.servermgrd[60301]): Exited with exit code: 1

Not that I know how to fix it except for rebooting...

Noam