digest-service spamming console with digest-request errors

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digest-service spamming console with digest-request errors

I, like many, have been having all sorts of problems with 10.9 server and Windows clients at work in a mixed-client network. Unlike a lot of people, so far 10.9.2 seems to have resolved most if not all of my users' issues. The server is used for File Sharing, Websites, and Software Update only.

However, my server has, since upgrading to Mavericks, been getting a weird set of digest-service errors every 10 seconds. I had assumed these were connected to the smbd crashes, but after the 10.9.2 update and so far having no issues with it the messages continue unabated. A few other people on the forums here have mentioned seeing similar messages, but nothing suggested has helped.

The chunk of errors looks like this, repeating every 10 seconds (on suspiciously regular clock multiples of 10 seconds, in fact):

3/20/14 5:26:30.394 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: uid=0 3/20/14 5:26:30.394 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: init request 3/20/14 5:26:30.399 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: init return domain: SERC-SERVER server: SERC-SERVER indomain was: 3/20/14 5:26:30.401 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: uid=0 3/20/14 5:26:30.401 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: init request 3/20/14 5:26:30.404 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: init return domain: SERC-SERVER server: SERC-SERVER indomain was: 3/20/14 5:26:30.405 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: uid=0 3/20/14 5:26:30.405 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: init request 3/20/14 5:26:30.408 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: init return domain: SERC-SERVER server: SERC-SERVER indomain was: 3/20/14 5:26:30.409 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: uid=0 3/20/14 5:26:30.410 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: od failed with 2 proto=lm 3/20/14 5:26:30.410 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: user=\ 3/20/14 5:26:30.410 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request: kdc failed with 22 proto=unknown 3/20/14 5:26:30.410 PM digest-service[30240]: digest-request guest: ok user=SERC-SERVER\GUEST proto=lm flags: NEG_KEYEX, ENC_128, NEG_VERSION, NEG_TARGET_INFO, NEG_NTLM2, NEG_ALWAYS_SIGN, NEG_ANONYMOUS, NEG_NTLM, NEG_SIGN, NEG_TARGET, NEG_UNICODE 3/20/14 5:26:34.346 PM AppleFileServer[534]: _Assert: /SourceCache/afpserver/afpserver-644.90.3/afpserver/FPCarbonVol.cpp, 71 (-35)

Note that the AppleFileServer error at the bottom also repeats every 10 seconds, but is offset from the digest-service errors by 6 seconds, so I'm not sure if it's related or a separate issue.

I have thus far tried configuring then disabling OpenDirectory (we don't use it, and it had not previously been configured), deleting and regenerating "/Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.systemidentities.plist" by running "sudo /usr/libexec/configureLocalKDC", disabling and re-enabling services, disabling guest access, re-setting the host and computer names, and generic voodoo like permissions repair.

Any suggestions for what might be causing these errors, and/or what I might try to prevent them?

Posted on Mar 20, 2014 5:44 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 17, 2014 3:09 AM in response to Marc Marshall

Hi Marc

I'm having a similar issue on my server, in that the logs are displaying the smae entriesrepeatedly;

AppleFileServer[160]: _Assert: /SourceCache/afpserver/afpserver-644.90.3/afpserver/FPCarbonVol.cpp, 71 (-35)

Strangely we are experiencing network (Mac) clients having very slow access to the server around 9.30am every morning, and sometimes at other points during the day. BUT mainly we are noticing that at 9.30 - 10am each day our creative studio is having extremely slow access to the server.

A few points to note:

1, The server is running 10.9.2 on Mac Mini 2GhzCore i7 16Gb RAM (RAM, CPU and Netowrk usage are all around 20%)

2, all clients in the studio are 10.9.2

Did you get any further troublshooting this on your own environment?

Thanks

Steve

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tom_stu

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May 7, 2014 11:41 PM in response to steverabb2013

Hi all

we do have the same issue and do not find any hint what cuases the problem.

running 10.9.2 with apple server 3.1.1 on a macpro of 2011 we do get the same messages in the logfile.

Every 10 seconds we get:

AppleFileServer[424]: _Assert: /SourceCache/afpserver/afpserver-644.90.3/afpserver/FPCarbonVol.cpp, 71 (-35)

We also have an issue on mac clients running 10.9.2:

If we do not use the client for about 30 minutes (does not necessarily go to sleepmode) and we turn back to the desktop we will not see the afp connection to the server for about 30 seconds. After this we are able to see the file server again. This delay is very anoying.

In the logfile on the the server we see at this very monment the following messages:

08.05.14 08:19:40,013 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: uid=0

08.05.14 08:19:40,038 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: netr probe 0

08.05.14 08:19:40,039 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: init request

08.05.14 08:19:40,210 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: init return domain: SERVER server: SERVER indomain was: <NULL>

08.05.14 08:19:40,210 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: uid=0

08.05.14 08:19:40,210 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: init request

08.05.14 08:19:40,257 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: init return domain: SERVER server: SERVER indomain was: <NULL>

08.05.14 08:19:47,751 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: uid=0

08.05.14 08:19:47,751 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: init request

08.05.14 08:19:47,798 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: init return domain: SERVER server: SERVER indomain was: <NULL>

08.05.14 08:19:47,809 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: uid=0

08.05.14 08:19:47,809 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: init request

08.05.14 08:19:47,999 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: init return domain: SERVER server: SERVER indomain was: <NULL>

08.05.14 08:19:48,000 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: uid=0

08.05.14 08:19:48,001 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: od failed with 2 proto=ntlmv2

08.05.14 08:19:48,001 digest-service[2706]: digest-request: user=\ladmin

08.05.14 08:19:48,004 digest-service[2706]: digest-request kdc: ok user=SERVER\ladmin proto=ntlmv2 flags: NEG_KEYEX, ENC_128, NEG_VERSION, NEG_TARGET_INFO, NEG_NTLM2, NEG_ALWAYS_SIGN, NEG_NTLM, NEG_SIGN, NEG_TARGET, NEG_UNICODE

Right know I do not have a clue what to do to resolve this issue.

Any help or hint is appreciated.

Thanks

Thomas

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Answer 3

Aug 16, 2014 7:51 AM in response to tom_stu

I too am getting the digest-service errors on Mav Server. I shut down the only Windows computer in the house running Win 7. The logs stopped. Win 7 should not have been trying to contact the server as I don't need to share any volumes. This will require some more investigation.

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Aug 18, 2016 4:39 PM in response to Marc Marshall

Just started for me in the last day or two. I look in Console daily and don't recall seeing this before.

I don't have any services enabled in Sharing.

8/18/16 4:24:09.750 PM digest-service[43740]: digest-request: uid=0

8/18/16 4:24:09.750 PM digest-service[43740]: digest-request: init request

8/18/16 4:24:09.753 PM digest-service[43740]: digest-request: init return domain: X server: X indomain was: <NULL>

8/18/16 4:24:09.774 PM digest-service[43740]: digest-request: uid=0

8/18/16 4:24:09.774 PM digest-service[43740]: digest-request: init request

8/18/16 4:24:09.778 PM digest-service[43740]: digest-request: init return domain: X server: X indomain was: <NULL>

OS X 10.11.6

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Marc Marshall Author

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Aug 19, 2016 4:21 PM in response to OregonRebel

Are you still on 10.9? 10.10 resolved the issue for me, and I also have not seen it on 10.11.

I do see periodic chunks of digest-service chatter in the logs, but it is directly related to actual connections from Windows clients and expected, rather than the unexplained set of log entries every 10 seconds.

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Aug 19, 2016 4:33 PM in response to Marc Marshall

As I noted at the bottom of my post, I'm on 10.11.6.

Console is overrun with messages from digest-service!

8/19/16 3:49:48.896 PM digest-service[50098]: label: default

8/19/16 3:49:48.896 PM digest-service[50098]: dbname: od:/Local/Default

8/19/16 3:49:48.896 PM digest-service[50098]: mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key

8/19/16 3:49:48.896 PM digest-service[50098]: acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl

8/19/16 3:49:48.901 PM digest-service[50098]: digest-request: uid=0

8/19/16 3:49:48.937 PM digest-service[50098]: digest-request: netr probe 0

8/19/16 3:49:48.938 PM digest-service[50098]: digest-request: init request

8/19/16 3:49:48.952 PM digest-service[50098]: digest-request: init return domain: X server: X indomain was: <NULL>

8/19/16 3:49:48.993 PM digest-service[50098]: digest-request: uid=0

8/19/16 3:49:48.993 PM digest-service[50098]: digest-request: init request

8/19/16 3:49:48.996 PM digest-service[50098]: digest-request: init return domain: X server: X indomain was: <NULL>

8/19/16 3:54:11.086 PM digest-service[50680]: label: default

8/19/16 3:54:11.086 PM digest-service[50680]: dbname: od:/Local/Default

8/19/16 3:54:11.086 PM digest-service[50680]: mkey_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/m-key

8/19/16 3:54:11.086 PM digest-service[50680]: acl_file: /var/db/krb5kdc/kadmind.acl

8/19/16 3:54:11.095 PM digest-service[50680]: digest-request: uid=0

8/19/16 3:54:11.105 PM digest-service[50680]: digest-request: netr probe 0

8/19/16 3:54:11.106 PM digest-service[50680]: digest-request: init request

8/19/16 3:54:11.109 PM digest-service[50680]: digest-request: init return domain: X server: X indomain was: <NULL>

8/19/16 3:54:11.129 PM digest-service[50680]: digest-request: uid=0

8/19/16 3:54:11.129 PM digest-service[50680]: digest-request: init request

8/19/16 3:54:11.133 PM digest-service[50680]: digest-request: init return domain: X server: X indomain was: <NULL>

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Marc Marshall Author

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Aug 19, 2016 4:44 PM in response to OregonRebel

Sorry, I missed where you had the OS version at the bottom.

You have all sharing services off, but what's the state of your firewall? That doesn't quite look like external traffic, but one possible explanation I can think of for that suddenly starting is that something is prodding your computer over the network and it's logging the requests but not responding to them.

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Answer 8

Aug 19, 2016 6:29 PM in response to Marc Marshall

Thought I might have found the problem, but it's something else.

The messages keep referring to /var/db/krb5kdc and those files are not present on my system.

But they aren't on my other partition or backup drive either.

Called AppleDoesn'tCare Support and as usual they offered no help whatsoever.

Dude says he can't open a ticket for Console messages unless there's a technical problem.

It's definitely related to the Internet connection.

When I connect or disconnect to the Wi-Fi signal these messages are thrown.

Just turning Wi-Fi off or on doesn't cause it - only when it connects or disconnects from a signal.

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Answer 9

Aug 19, 2016 8:37 PM in response to OregonRebel

Just to clarify - I'm not saying it isn't related to sharing, it probably is, but the messages only seem to be created when connecting/disconnection to the 'net.

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