dreiland

Q: howto reinstall/reinitialize os x server

Had lion server install on my mac mini.

Now updated to mountian lion and OS X Server.

 

I got a bunch of servces that don't work.

I am pretty sure migration failed, but there wasn't any mesages.

Open directory is working and all I care about saving is user accounts.

 

Is there a way to reset services (message,mail, cal, ...) to defaults and start over?

Posted on Jul 26, 2012 12:40 PM

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  • by jepping,

    jepping jepping Feb 26, 2013 10:31 AM in response to Jan C
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    Feb 26, 2013 10:31 AM in response to Jan C

    Hi Janette,

     

    That setup shouldn't be a problem, reboots might even be faster and when you setup restorepoints and backups it might work out ok.

    You should attempt to clone the parallels drive to an image on an external hard drive and restore that image onto the macmini. That way you get a stable OS, with all the correct settings.

    Just factor in some downtime, probably a day to be safe.

    Goodluck

     

    Jeffrey

  • by Jan C,

    Jan C Jan C Feb 26, 2013 11:48 AM in response to jepping
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    Feb 26, 2013 11:48 AM in response to jepping

    I shall think very seriously about your advice, Jeffrey! Thanks for taking the time to do some thing too!!

     

    Janette

  • by jepping,

    jepping jepping Feb 26, 2013 11:59 PM in response to Jan C
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    Feb 26, 2013 11:59 PM in response to Jan C

    You're welcome, goodluck!

     

    Jeffrey

  • by SgtBeano,

    SgtBeano SgtBeano Apr 5, 2013 8:36 AM in response to dreiland
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    Apr 5, 2013 8:36 AM in response to dreiland

    As well as deleting

     

    /Applications/Server.app

    and

     

    /var/db/.ServerSetupDone

    you should also remove or move the following .plists from your library. 

     

    The easist way is to navigate to /Library and then search for 'server'.  The ones you'll want to get rid of are;

     

    com.apple.servermgr_accounts.plist

    com.apple.servermgr_info.plist

    com.apple.servermgrd.plist

     

    Then you can either copy Server.app back out of the trash or redownload it depending on your previous steps.  The only persistent settings will be your file shares, as these get handed to the standard Sharing prefpane.

     

    Hope this helps.

  • by sbeeker,

    sbeeker sbeeker Apr 19, 2013 9:12 PM in response to Mark23
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    Apr 19, 2013 9:12 PM in response to Mark23

    I think you may have answered this but am not positive. I had an older version of Server (10.6) I think.  I had impression that if I downloaded the Mountain Lion and OS X server apps (each $20 or so) I would be able to install Mountain Lion and then add the OS X Server.  I did this.   Now I can no longer see my first drive and I have queston marks for items like server admin, server preferences, etc.    Kind of perplexed.

     

    So I see several folks talking about various issues and I am hesitant to try too much here.  I have a recent back up on my Time Capsule.   To be honest not sure where the two apps go installed to   

     

    I have the server in order to learn how the mac servers work.  So I guess not proficient enought to understand what all I screwed up on.

     

    I saw a couple blurbs about how to upgrade but  I thought I did what they said.  Installed Mountain Lion and Then OS X server.

     

    So any advice anybody can offer appreciated.

  • by Johann Beda,

    Johann Beda Johann Beda Aug 6, 2013 6:17 AM in response to sbeeker
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    Aug 6, 2013 6:17 AM in response to sbeeker

    sbeeker wrote:

     

    I think you may have answered this but am not positive. I had an older version of Server (10.6) I think.  I had impression that if I downloaded the Mountain Lion and OS X server apps (each $20 or so) I would be able to install Mountain Lion and then add the OS X Server.  I did this.   Now I can no longer see my first drive and I have queston marks for items like server admin, server preferences, etc.    Kind of perplexed.

     

     

    All the 10.6 server administration software does not work with 10.8. The only Apple software to administer a 10.8 server is the "Server.app" program, and the 10.8 Workgroup Manager available here: http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1567

  • by bigkstyle,

    bigkstyle bigkstyle Sep 17, 2013 8:37 AM in response to dreiland
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    Sep 17, 2013 8:37 AM in response to dreiland

    OK so I was able to fix this isssue without reinstalling OSX. 

     

    First I deleted Server.app and everything else I could find relating to the OSX server in /var and /Library. After reinstalling a clean copy from the App Store I still received the error you have mentioned.

     

    Here's the fix. I edited the file following file:/var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist

     

    And removed the following:

     

    <key>com.apple.serverd</key>

    <dict>

                        <key>Disabled</key>

                        <false/>

    </dict>

     

    Now I was able to get past this step and reinstall a clean OSX server. It still had some of my old DNS and DHCP settings, but you can easily clean those out.

  • by Jan C,

    Jan C Jan C Sep 17, 2013 12:25 PM in response to bigkstyle
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    Sep 17, 2013 12:25 PM in response to bigkstyle

    That has to be the single, most important bit of advice I've received! While the element in my overrides.plist file had 'True' for 'Disabled', deleting the element and attempting to install the Server (without redownloading the app) had a successful outcome!!

     

    I can now synchronise the new Server with the one that is running within Parallels Desktop (on the same Mac Mini!) and, later, permit the new one to take over all tasks. Thanks

  • by sebasong,

    sebasong sebasong Sep 21, 2013 7:17 AM in response to bigkstyle
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    Sep 21, 2013 7:17 AM in response to bigkstyle

    great!  removing those lines work for me. Thanks BigKstyle.

  • by moritzz,

    moritzz moritzz Oct 10, 2013 4:51 AM in response to dreness
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    Oct 10, 2013 4:51 AM in response to dreness

    This solved my issues with an update to Server.app.

  • by qurt,

    qurt qurt Jul 2, 2014 7:21 AM in response to bigkstyle
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    Jul 2, 2014 7:21 AM in response to bigkstyle

    You're a hero.

    How on earth did you figure this out?

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