Corrupted user in 10.8 (server)

I did now additionally:

- SMC reset for iMac (shutdown, power plug 15 secs off, 5 secs in, boot)

- PRAM reset

- batch checked the plist files with plutil (i had already removed many of them) sudo plutil -s ~/Library/Preferences/*.plist

- removed caches for the user rm -rf ~/Library/Caches

- removed caches in rm -rf /Library/Caches

Maybe this log entry is useful:

16.08.12 14:29:21,743 accountsd[434]: Error while opening database Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=512 "The file couldn’t be saved." UserInfo=0x7fba63443f10 {reason=Failed to create file; code = 2}, {

reason = "Failed to create file; code = 2";

}

Creating new database...

16.08.12 14:29:21,745 accountsd[434]: Second Error while creating new database Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=512 "The file couldn’t be saved." UserInfo=0x7fba63457490 {reason=Failed to create file; code = 2}, {

reason = "Failed to create file; code = 2";

}

Some findings:

• When using "Share" in iPhoto invoking the "Security & Privacy" system preferences pane the per user launchd daemon "accountsd" is invoked as shown in Activity Monitor.
• Inspecting open files of the accountsd process on a second Mac shows it uses an sqlite3 database located at "~/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite".

This means i have to check that sqlite file on my troubled Mac why this certain instance cannot be used. Then it should be resolved.

My previous post was correct. The problem is that "~/Library/Accounts/Accounts3.sqlite" does not exist for this account. Something must have gone wrong while upgrading to 10.8 which introduced this daemon.

On top of that the user immutable flag is set on ~/Library which prevents the creation of the missing file and directory:

ls -lOd ~/Library

drwx------@ 76 macmark staff uchg,hidden 2584 Jul 20 2011 /Users/macmark/Library

I changed the flag with

chflags nouchg ~/Library

Then opened the "Security & Privacy" system preferences pane and also used the "Share" menu in iPhoto to ensure the daemon creates its stuff there. And then i changed the flag back to normal with

chflags uchg ~/Library

And everything was fine, the Accounts directory was created, the database was created.

There was even more wrong which i fixed here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4678085?answerId=20821454022#20821454022