OSX Server 3 Failed to Update Services, Reboot Fails now

Having the exact same problem right now. Haven't force restarted yet, though. The first two servers I upgraded went fine.

Having the same exact problem. Need help urgently.

Did anything end up solving the problem? I'm in the same situation now.

Help! I have the same problem right now after updating to 3.0.2. Did you solve the problem?

It's rather rediculous, but I ended up trashing the entire /Library/Server folder along with all the plist files I could find in the Preferences folder.

The only services I use are Time Machine and Caching at this point in time, so it's not the end of the world for me to reconfigure. In fact, Time Machine didn't need any reconfiguing. To maintain Caching, I went ahead and set it up fresh, but replaced the "new" Cache folder with the one from a few days ago. All back to normal.

I'm not sure trashing the whole Server folder would be wise for the other services.

Had the same problem. Restart didn't help.

Moving the Server App to Trash stops all Services.

New download of the Server App from Appstore and installing it solves the problem.

It takes some time to restart all services.

Hope this helps.

I had the same problem. Finally found a solution that appears to work fine.

Using any free app uninstaller, remove "server" from your applications and remove it and all of its related files.

Empty the trash.

Restart your Mac holding down the 'shift' key. This puts you in safe mode.

Go to the Apple app store and re-download the "server" app.It will ,et you do this, becuase it cannot find a copy of the app anyplace on your computer.

After downloading and installation, configure the 'server' app following its commands.

Restart as usual .... presto ... works!

You can then re-configure as required.

Thank you! It worked perfectly!

I did reconfigure my services, but they were limited.

I would think that since we have trashed all related files and then reloaded the complete app, you WILL have to re-enter the info. That's my best guess!

Adding my own 2 cents...

I would not recommend an uninstaller app to be used on a production server...

If you trash the server app, its detected by the OS and server services are stopped.

You can drag the app from the trash back to Applications (vs re-downloading) and when you run the app, it will try to configure services with your existing data. (this assumes there is nothing wrong with the app you trashed)

If you trash /Libary/Server, you trash your data (if its stored in the default location).. so those with wiki, web, etc should not trash this folder.

Best practice with servers..

Always make a clone before doing any updates.

You want a roll-back option for when things go wrong.

Hi all. I shouted victory too early. After reinstalling, server did go through the Uptating services process but is now stuck in Preparing services for 15 hours. This all happened when I updated to 3.0.2.

Any advice you can give will be highly appreciated...

I wonder if all the files were trashed. When I reloaded Server from the app store, it is of course 3.0.2, so it did not need updating.

It did take about fifteen minutes to load and re-install, but did not get stuck. All is working fine still.

Be nice for Apple to jump in here, maybe with a link to 3.0.1 That would be nice!

In my case, it keeps on "Checking DNS configuration" forever, i'm trying reinstalling the server app...