For all of you having services failing to start

A day after upgrading to ML server I started getting all sorts of weirdness which several reboots did not resolve. I couldn't even troubleshoot as the logs would not load in Server.app and Console.app would just hang requiring a force quit. I couldn't believe these issues were happening again as the upgrade ran seamless and all services were working perfectly. I ran Drizzt's solution figuring if it worked for Lion it just might work for Mountain Lion. I ran the command and viola, everything came back up with no issues.

I haven't tried ML yet.. but I don't like what you just wrote. I hope it's going to be fixed for 10.7.5 / 10.8.1!

That didn't work for me neither on L nor ML servers. Only way that works for me is to manually start the postgresql process.

Try : sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.postgres.plist

When I do sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.postgres.plist

I get: org.postgresql.postgres: Already loaded

So if I do:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.postgres.plist

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.postgres.plist

But no postgres process start.

Profile Manager and Wiki says "Error Reading Settings" in Server.app and the log keeps looping through the messages below:

7/29/12 9:02:55.607 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Initializing DeviceManagerDaemon with ports 3320,3321,3322,3323,3324,3325,3326,3327,3328,3329 (physmem = 16GB)

7/29/12 9:02:55.607 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Making sure Rails is configured properly

7/29/12 9:02:55.607 PM com.apple.devicemanager: DEBUG: Running rake command: /usr/bin/rake db:migrate

7/29/12 9:02:57.354 PM com.apple.devicemanager: rake aborted!

7/29/12 9:02:57.354 PM com.apple.devicemanager: could not connect to server: No such file or directory

7/29/12 9:02:57.354 PM com.apple.devicemanager: Is the server running locally and accepting

7/29/12 9:02:57.354 PM com.apple.devicemanager: connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

7/29/12 9:02:57.354 PM com.apple.devicemanager: (See full trace by running task with --trace)

7/29/12 9:02:57.361 PM com.apple.devicemanager: (in /usr/share/devicemgr/backend)

7/29/12 9:02:57.365 PM com.apple.devicemanager: /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/devicemgrd:109:in `rake': Rake command failed with 256 (RuntimeError)

7/29/12 9:02:57.365 PM com.apple.devicemanager: from /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/devicemgrd:103:in `setupRails'

7/29/12 9:02:57.365 PM com.apple.devicemanager: from /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/devicemgrd:33:in `run'

7/29/12 9:02:57.365 PM com.apple.devicemanager: from /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/devicemgrd:131

7/29/12 9:02:57.365 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.devicemanager[665]) Exited with code: 1

7/29/12 9:02:57.365 PM com.apple.launchd: (com.apple.devicemanager) Throttling respawn: Will start in 9 seconds

7/29/12 9:03:04.318 PM com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres[668]) Exited with code: 1

7/29/12 9:03:04.318 PM com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

This line :

com.apple.launchd: (org.postgresql.postgres) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Means that Postgres stops. You can have a look in /Library/Logs/PostgreSQL/PostgreSQL.log ans see why it stoped. Since you start it by yourself, could it be that you left it openned? Once launchd can start it for good, you'll be fine.

Have u tried this

sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.postgres.plist

serveradmin start postgres

Sorry made a typo

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postgresql.postgres.plist

serveradmin start postgres

Just to check something, is this a permanent fix for Lion Server?

Will this mean no more living in fear of someone calling me and telling me that the there passwords dont work?

It made my server stable. I currently have 38 days of uptime and all services work as they should!

Oh - my - god. Drizzt you are a hero, truly, king of kings. I have been regretting moving to Lion server as every week something goes wrong, and I have to restart the server.

Just out of interest, what exactly is that doing does postgresql have a limit of users or something?

So when even I set up a server, I should just run this terminal command straight away!

Has anyone submitted this to Apple? Perhaps this will happen in 10.7.5?

I'm just glad I could help!

The problem and solution as been explained in this topic earlier. It is a problem with the number of openned files.

I know someone at Apple knows about this. I'm waiting for 10.7.5...

Well, I had my issue again today, all of a sudden users cant log in to services. So unfortunatly, this hasn’t worked for me.

Oh for a bit more info:

Out of the blue, no one can connect to the server, Mail, Calender, Address Book all spit an error, that the password is incorrcet (so it seems like the password server is falling over).

I have to restart to get it back. Once restarted, Mail Address Book work great. iCal does not.

So I have to open terminal and do the following:

sudo serveradmin stop calendar

sudo serveradmin settings calendar:Authentication:Wiki:URL = "http://127.0.0.1:8089/RPC2"

sudo serveradmin start calendar

Then it all comes good.