Server hangs up on restart

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Server hangs up on restart

Our Mac (Panther) server for our courses went offline when the college experienced power outage problems a few weeks ago.

They couldn't get the college servers functioning for two days because of network problems.

When I tried to restart my server it showed a progress bar and a message. The message keep changing but the process stopped on "waiting for ipfilter…"

Yesterday I put it into Terminal mode and accessed it from another computer (via Firewire) and ran the Disk Warrior diagnostic software.

Disk Warrior repaired a few directory inconsistencies but did not find any real problems of any type.

Then it stopped on "waiting for directory services" and would not advance.

The server has a static IP address and that can be pinged when the server is locked up like this.

Today I ran the Utilities startup repair program, after that the server stopped at "waiting for Network Address Translation" in both regular mode and in safe mode.

Tried things like resetting PRAM and even put the drive in another computer to see if it might be the network card.

Had the same problems in the new computer and in different Internet connections.

Seems to be hanging at "waiting for ipfilter…" now. If I let it sit overnight it eventually gets to the logon screen, but it is frozen and I cannot enter an ID or PW.

Any insights?

Interestingly, we set up another server last week (SnowLeopard) and yesterday this server suddenly started to lock up in startup. Ran the Install disk First Aid and DiskWarrior- no problems indicated. Tried CMD-v to watch the progress and it hangs at ("/usr/sbin/mDNSResponder",.....) no such file or directory.

I have had servers for years and have never had such problems, now two at the same time. Very perplexing.

Posted on Nov 1, 2011 7:58 AM

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Feb 11, 2015 3:44 PM in response to RonZellner

Over last week i have very similar hang at "my-server-name com.apple launch[1] (com.apple.mDNSResponder [70.]: posix spawn (usr/bin/mDNSResponder...no file or directory.

I had just reinstalled OS X Server 10.6.3 on reforatted blank drive - updated twice to 10.6.8 - after 5 hours downloading rebooting system restarted OK each time. Then did setup of file access (a separate drive with existing data) this was visble to client machines but strangrely not identical access although all clients are up to date OS X 10.6.8 and individually work fine,

Using console fsck -f t boots until it gets to point of cycling around above dianostic every 10 seconds.

This looks to my paymans knowledge that it trying to broadcast a DNS info, but this was nt needed in sstem since the server i running in aclosed shop intenal network only.

To reset to wen it ranonce wopuld need a repaeat of entire download and update to get to point whee i can configure server usage parameters.

Can anyone show how to stop "spawning?" retries and go to normal server admin panel?

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