Q: Profile Server not available

I'm having an issue with the Mac OS X Lion Server profile service. Whenever I try to open the profilemanager page, I'm getting the following error :

Profile Manager Unavailable. Please wait a moment and try again.

The Profile manager was fine before.

From /var/log/system.log, it seems there's an issue with ruby not receiving the correct permissions from sandboxd :

Aug 20 09:58:22 crearoeosx002 sandboxd[4563] ([9987]): ruby(9987) deny file-read-metadata /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000vm00006x

Aug 20 09:58:23 crearoeosx002 sandboxd[4563] ([9987]): ruby(9987) deny mach-lookup com.apple.distributed_notifications@1v3

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 sandboxd[4563] ([9987]): ruby(9987) deny file-read-data /private/etc/hosts

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]: /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:572:in `start_tcp_server': no acceptor (RuntimeError)

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:572:in `start_server'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/lib/thin/backends/tcp_server.rb:16:in `connect'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/lib/thin/backends/base.rb:53:in `start'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:256:in `call'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:256:in `run_machine'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/eventmachine-0.12.10/lib/eventmachine.rb:256:in `run'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/lib/thin/backends/base.rb:61:in `start'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/lib/thin/server.rb:159:in `start'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/lib/thin/controllers/controller.rb:86:in `start'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/lib/thin/runner.rb:185:in `send'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/lib/thin/runner.rb:185:in `run_command'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/lib/thin/runner.rb:151:in `run!'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/ge ms/thin-1.2.8/bin/thin:6

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /usr/bin/thin:19:in `load'

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]:      from /usr/bin/thin:19

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]: >> Using rack adapter

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]: >> Thin web server (v1.2.8 codename Black Keys)

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]: >> Debugging ON

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]: >> Maximum connections set to 1024

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.collabauthd[9987]: >> Listening on localhost:8086, CTRL+C to stop

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.collabauthd[9987]): Exited with code: 1

Aug 20 09:58:27 crearoeosx002 com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.collabauthd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 5 seconds

-> searching around for a resolution yields a similar problem for wiki, but contrary to the resolution there, i did not touch my ruby/rack installation with newer versions.

Things I've tried sofar :

-> Rebooting the machine

-> clearing out the apache configs and reverting to the default ones

-> reinstalling my certificate

-> checking if postgres is running (it is) and repopulating the database with the scripts found in /System/Library/ServerSetup/CommonExtras/PostgreSQLExtras/

All resolutions found in similar issue threads, which all seem a little strange to me.

-> It seems the problem originates from ruby not getting the right permissions from sandboxd. When looking in /usr/share/sandbox, I see no entries for ruby nor any ruby related content in the files which are present.

-> does anyone know how to create a .sb file which would grant ruby access to said resources?

Thank you for your time.