OSX Server 3 Will not start, stuck on "Preparing Services" during upgrade for 2 months
Since upgrading my server to Mavericks and OSX server 3Iwhich cost me the upgrade fee to boot) I have been unable to get OSX Server to start. It is perpetually stuck during the "upgrade" process at the point it says "Preparing Services". I have scoured many forums looking for solutions and nothing will get me beyond this point. I use OSX Server primarly to assist with managing time machine backups over wifi for multiple machines. I don't know if I'm an outlier in use, but I can't imagine im just the only one with this issue.
This is occuring on a Mac Mini Late 2012 model
Here are a few addditional threads with similar issues but no activity since October.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5486874?answerId=23570078022#23570078022
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5486733
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5603165?answerId=24000830022#24000830022
Community, Has anyone resolved this? Any further suggestions would be appreciated.
Apple, Fix this! This is unacceptable. Refund my money and still fix this. I've found temporary means, but having automated time machine backups is a huge convience. I'm shocked that a company that makes such great products can fail so obviously on a seemingly primary use case. If the solution is to reinstall rebuild the serv so be it, but just respond to this thread or the other threads I've documented above with some solution.
OSX Server 3-OTHER, OS X Mavericks (10.9)