TS3960: Server App or Server Admin can't connect to a newly upgraded Lion server

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Jules Burt1

Q: can't login to my newly purchased / installed OS X Server...

When trying to login to the server with server app it's telling 'shaking' as if to say password is wrong or similar...I've found a few support pages that say to:

To check if servermgrd is loaded, see the output of this command in Terminal:

sudo launchctl list | grep -q com.apple.servermgrd && echo loaded || echo not loaded

If the output is "not loaded", load the com.apple.servermgrd job into launchd with this command:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.servermgrd.plist

However the output of the first sudo command shows 'not loaded', but the second sudo command to load outputs

 

'launchctl: Couldn't stat("/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.servermgrd.plist"): No such file or directory nothing found to load'

 

NEED SOME HELP PLS, my machine now doesn't work on ethernet due to this problem...fortunately airport is working though for now...

 

WHY would a newly purchased and installed version of Lion Server do this!! Arrrggghhh....

 

Any help appreciated...how can I kill the server and reinstall or similar? Can't seem to stop it...

Posted on Nov 9, 2012 9:40 AM