Mountain Lion Server VPN won't startc

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Mountain Lion Server VPN won't startc

I just upgraded a MacMini running 10.6.8 client to Mountain Lion (10.8.1) and then downloaded Server.app.

All I need it to do is run basic file sharing and VPN, however, the VPN service never starts up.

Every time I flip the switch in Server.app to start VPN, it immediately turns back to the "off" position and the following lines print in the system.log

Aug 29 20:00:56 server.catsareawesome.com com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/CoreServices/Serve rManagerDaemon.bundle' [91] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/CoreServices/Serve rManagerDaemon.bundle' [91] (2,0)

Aug 29 20:00:56 server.catsareawesome.com com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [63] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/System/Library/CoreServices/Serve rManagerDaemon.bundle' [91] (100000,0)

Aug 29 20:00:56 server.catsareawesome.com com.apple.SecurityServer[20]: Succeeded authorizing right 'com.apple.ServiceManagement.daemons.modify' by client '/usr/libexec/launchdadd' [388] for authorization created by '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [63] (100002,0

Aug 29 20:00:56 server.catsareawesome.com com.apple.serverd[63]: ERROR: SMJobSubmit: The operation couldn’t be completed. (kSMErrorDomainLaunchd error 9 - The job dictionary specifies that it is disabled.)

Also of note, if I try to do anything using serveradmin in terminal, I get the following error:

server:lib temp$ serveradmin

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libservermgrcommon.dylib

Referenced from: /usr/sbin/serveradmin

Reason: image not found

Trace/BPT trap: 5

That libservermgrcommon.dylib file is definitely not in /usr/lib

I would really appreciate any help. 😐

Thanks

Posted on Aug 29, 2012 6:08 PM

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Jan 28, 2013 2:24 PM in response to Jason Bennett

Hi Jason

I was getting the same behavior after Apple support had me delete some plist files to get Airplay going. I was also getting the following error:

the error occurred while processing a command of type 'writesettings' in the plug-in 'server vpn'

I went into ~/Library/Preferences/ and /Library/Preferences/ and deleted every plist contating the word server. I had to re-set up my server (meaning walk through some intial steps) but all of my settings were still there after that and everything started working again.

Just a thought, obviously try at your own risk but it worked for me.

Kellen

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