I installed Lion Server and when I click on the Profile Manager I get an error and nothing shows - I can't figure out how to re install Lion Server to fix this - any ideas

there is a recovery option in lion you might want to investigate

Me, too. I found the following thread here in the ASC that had a solution. Alas, it didn't work for me, but it might for you.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3189397?answerId=15695605022#15695605022

I have also had the 'Error reading settings' problem in Profile Manager, despite trying everything in the discussions and clean reinstalls (which work for a little while only).

It seems that various different fixes work for some people but not others; and the underlying cause of the problem has not been resolved.

There are now numerous threads on this problem (there are yet others with similar problems):

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3189397

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3195100

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3212015

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3208533

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3249062

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3199734

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3212304

I have posted this in each to try and pull things together a bit.

Does anyone know if Apple has acknowledged the issue and offered an official response?

Look at /usr/lib/libpq library. I have had the same problem. There were following files:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 163680 30 jul 21:17 /usr/lib/libpq.5.4.dylib

lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 15 30 jul 21:20 /usr/lib/libpq.dylib -> libpq.5.4.dylib

Result for command sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/wipeDB .sh was:

Password:

devicemgr:state = "STOPPED"

postgres:state = "RUNNING"

(in /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend)

Couldn't drop device_management : #<RuntimeError: Please install the postgresql adapter: `gem install activerecord-postgresql-adapter` (dlopen(/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backen d/vendor/gems/pg-0.9.0/lib/pg_ext.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib

Referenced from: /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor /gems/pg-0.9.0/lib/pg_ext.bundle

Reason: image not found - /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor /gems/pg-0.9.0/lib/pg_ext.bundle)>

(in /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend)

Please install the postgresql adapter: `gem install activerecord-postgresql-adapter` (dlopen(/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backen d/vendor/gems/pg-0.9.0/lib/pg_ext.bundle, 9): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libpq.5.dylib

Referenced from: /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor /gems/pg-0.9.0/lib/pg_ext.bundle

Reason: image not found - /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor /gems/pg-0.9.0/lib/pg_ext.bundle)

/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor/ rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters/abstract/connection_spe cification.rb:76:in `establish_connection'

/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor/ rails/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake:69:in `create_database'

/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/vendor/ rails/railties/lib/tasks/databases.rake:31

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 636:in `call'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 636:in `execute'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 631:in `each'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 631:in `execute'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 597:in `invoke_with_call_chain'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor. rb:242:in `synchronize'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 590:in `invoke_with_call_chain'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 583:in `invoke'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 2051:in `invoke_task'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 2029:in `top_level'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 2029:in `each'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 2029:in `top_level'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 2068:in `standard_exception_handling'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 2023:in `top_level'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 2001:in `run'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 2068:in `standard_exception_handling'

/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rake.rb: 1998:in `run'

/usr/bin/rake:31

Couldn't create database for {"adapter"=>"postgresql", "username"=>"_devicemgr", "encoding"=>"UTF8", "pool"=>5, "database"=>"device_management"}

devicemgr:state = "STARTING"

There was missing symlink to right version of libpq dynamic library!

After I entered the following commands and now it works well for me:

$ cd /usr/lib

$ sudo ln -s libpq.5.4.dylib libpq.5.dylib

$ sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend/wipeDB .sh

devicemgr:state = "STOPPED"

postgres:state = "RUNNING"

(in /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend)

(in /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/share/devicemgr/backend)

devicemgr:state = "RUNNING"

Milan