Facetime Server Encountered Error

I have the same error.

Upgraded from 10.6.8 to Lion with a MBP 15'' Early 2011 QuadCore i7 2.3GHz 8GB RAM and FT doesn't work.

I don't like Lion and it has problems too.

Apple, I'm not happy this time! 😕

"delete Facetime and all preferences, restart (Command-R) and reinstall Lion.."

Tried this on Macbook Pro and Macbook and unfortunately Facetime is still not working on either machine.

😟

I've got the same problem with FaceTime in my iMac Intel Core 2 Duo after Lion update. All the people here hope Apple intervene in this affair soon.

DId someone else called the apple support?

I also tried to delete FT and all its preferences and to re-install Lion (cmd+R). Nothing! FT doesn't work.

same problem here, none of the suggested solutions helped so far, certificate couldnt be found..

Guess Apple has to fix it (soon?!)

Me too.

IT WORKED in my case, both on iMac and MBP. It's been mentioned before here, but I just want to outline the steps in case some of you here want to try.

Launch Terminal, and enter

chflags nohidden ~/Library/

Go to your home, Library, Preference and drag these 2 files to Trash:

com.apple.FaceTime.plist, com.apple.FaceTime.plist.lockfile

Empty trash

Back In terminal, enter:

sudo rm -rf /Applications/FaceTime.app

Enter your password.

Reboot and reinstall Lion. After about 33 minutes. It's done, and in my case, I can sign in Facetime, again!

Pain in the rear end, Apple should come out with a patch for genral end users.

cyberbuddhah.

I must be one of those general end users you mentioned. I'm trying this - already did the first 2 steps you have there - but now can't seem to be able to download the install for Lion again. It reads "Installed" in the app store and doesn't react to clicking (nor cursing). I tried clicking while holding Option - still nothing.

anyone know how to redownload to reinstall from app store in this case? thanks

try pressing "alt" while clicking on "purchased", now you should be able to see the link "install" again

I found my answer here:

http://www.hightechdad.com/2011/07/21/how-to-re-download-mac-os-x-lion-create-a- bootable-install-dvd/

I did the 'hold option while clicking on the "Purchases"' section - btw, you have to continue to hold option, not just option-click and quickly left off option.

anyway, reading that article and it mentioning the recovery partition, now I also seem to remember something in this 100 post thread about that too. But it doesn't really say what to do with the 'recovery hd' - can Lion be reinstalled using that also?

thanks

ah yes, thank you Stege. I was typing my response while you posted the way to do that.

I did try this several times with just quickly hitting option/alt-click but it wasn't until I held option/alt for a bit even after clicking that it came up differently.

I noticed somethings are still greyed out with "Installed" and also that this time it seems to be downloading to Launchpad like downloading an app to an iPhone. Just like Xcode installer did..

So, what is this alt-click view?

idem here

"I also tried to delete FT and all its preferences and to re-install Lion (cmd+R). Nothing! FT doesn't work."

please help!

@domenachi and folks here

The recovery partition is a joke. It's just a skimmy partition about 650MB. When you type Command-R it's hit or missed, it then download the full installer version from the store (i.e. cloud), somerimes it complains that no internet connection: you're hosed!

If you successfully downloaded an install image, I would recommend to restore it onto a 8GB thumb drive, instead of burning to a DVD ( the last step in that instruction). Then plug in your thumb drive, reboot, hold down ALT (option) key. Select boot from thumdrive.

Install from thumb drive is faster than from DVD and more reliable.

Good luck

@hook7

Read my answer to domenachi. Execute Command+R at times is just PRAYing that it works. I think the Restore partition does not down load a complete install image from the STORE. I would recommend you to make a bootable thumdrive and reinstall from there.