HT4827: How to disable Lion Server

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Thunderbird
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Q: OS Server 2.1.1

Shortly after upgrading to OS Server 2.1.1, my MAC Mini began crashing sometime as many as 10 to 15 time an hour.  I erased my hard drive and reinstalled Mountain Lion and OS Server 2.1.1 the first try at configuering OS Server end in a crash.  Once rebooted things seemed to go well for about 3 hours then, as I was recreating on of my web sites it crashed again.  Now when the reboot was done and I tryed to conect to the server it will not connect.  The password for the server is the same my login and the admin password (keep it simple one password for everything).  so now I can't open the server.app at all.  This the samething that happened before, and I did a clean install hoping that it would take care of the problem.  It did not!  My MAC Mini has a solid state hard drive, and the hardware check out in all the test.  My computer worked correctly before the 2.1.1 upgrade is there any to get the pre-upgrad OS Server back?

Mac mini (Mid 2010), OS X Server

Posted on Oct 16, 2012 10:13 PM

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Q: OS Server 2.1.1

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  • by Mark23,

    Mark23 Mark23 Oct 16, 2012 11:41 PM in response to Thunderbird
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    Oct 16, 2012 11:41 PM in response to Thunderbird

    I suggest going to the Apple Store.

  • by haykong,

    haykong haykong Oct 18, 2012 12:24 AM in response to Thunderbird
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    Oct 18, 2012 12:24 AM in response to Thunderbird

    Hey Thunderbird,

     

        Sounds like you have some kind of hardware problem or driver issue maybe with your solid state drive. If you're crashing that much and getting freezes within 10-15 times an hour there's something seriously wrong.

     

     

    At least don't install the Server.app. You don't want to add to the issue until you verfiy that the hardware runs fine.

     

     

    I would format the SSD drive and just install Mountain Lion and treat it as a workstation for the next few days and see how stable it is ... If it still crashes.. then yeah there's a hardware issue.

     

    Next step is to Swap out the RAM and see if it still crashes.. Hopefully you'll have some extra ram modules that can fit in it that's smaller.

     

    If it still crashes swap out the SSD...

     

    If it still crashes then it's the logicboard.

     

    ... At this point my guess it could maybe SSD or RAM..... especially if it's a generic SSD drive.

     

     

    Oh BTW, even though you ran hardware tests with software, it does not necessary mean that the hardware's fine. It just means that the hardware tests fine in the parameters that it was testing. I had cases in the past where the hardware tests fine with the software tests, but tracked it down to either it being a bad RAM module or a bad hard drive. And in some rare cases a bad logicboard, but yes it can still happen. 

     

    I have a lot of experience in dealing with that since I use repair mac's at a shop during my college years and after college years for some time before I became consultant.