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caching temporarily/permanently disabled

Today my caching service went down and it won't come back up. The cache is hosted on an external USB disk, which has no trouble being mounted or being read. Permissions seem good!

When I turn off the service, it shows in the bar that it can read it, since it indicates the type of things it has cached. But when the service is turned on, it says unavailable.

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Logs here:


Dec 8 04:17:11 --- last message repeated 1 time ---

Dec 8 04:17:11 anonymizedhost.nl AssetCache[83363]: Timed out waiting for /Volumes/2TB4/Library/Server/Caching/Data to appear

Dec 8 04:17:11 anonymizedhost.nl AssetCache[83363]: Caching Server shutting down (75)

Dec 8 04:17:11 anonymizedhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.AssetCache[83363]): Service exited with abnormal code: 75

Dec 8 04:17:11 anonymizedhost.nl AssetCache[83471]: Caching Server started

Dec 8 04:17:11 anonymizedhost.nl AssetCache[83471]: Waiting for /Volumes/2TB4/Library/Server/Caching/Data to appear

Dec 8 04:17:20 anonymizedhost.nl servermgr_caching[15256]: idle exit

Dec 8 04:18:02 anonymizedhost.nl serveradmin[83495]: Connected to the Notify Service

Dec 8 04:18:10 anonymizedhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing[83507]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.screensharing.server

Dec 8 04:18:20 anonymizedhost.nl servermgr_caching[15256]: idle exit

Dec 8 04:19:20 anonymizedhost.nl servermgr_caching[15256]: idle exit

Dec 8 04:19:49 anonymizedhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing[83546]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.screensharing.server

Dec 8 04:20:12 anonymizedhost.nl AssetCache[83471]: Timed out waiting for /Volumes/2TB4/Library/Server/Caching/Data to appear

Dec 8 04:20:12 anonymizedhost.nl AssetCache[83471]: Caching Server shutting down (75)

Dec 8 04:20:12 anonymizedhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.AssetCache[83471]): Service exited with abnormal code: 75

Dec 8 04:20:12 anonymizedhost.nl AssetCache[83555]: Caching Server started

Dec 8 04:20:12 anonymizedhost.nl AssetCache[83555]: Waiting for /Volumes/2TB4/Library/Server/Caching/Data to appear

Dec 8 04:20:20 anonymizedhost.nl servermgr_caching[15256]: idle exit

Dec 8 04:21:20 anonymizedhost.nl servermgr_caching[15256]: idle exit

Dec 8 04:21:29 anonymizedhost com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (com.apple.screensharing[83586]): Endpoint has been activated through legacy launch(3) APIs. Please switch to XPC or bootstrap_check_in(): com.apple.screensharing.server

Dec 8 04:21:47 anonymizedhost.nl collabpp[83593]: Failed to obtain sandbox extension for path=/dev/null/Library/Caches/collabpp. Errno:20

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)

Posted on Dec 8, 2014 4:29 AM

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Dec 23, 2017 12:35 PM in response to jhoogeboom

Generally this has to do with file permissions on the external disk. I found that the auto-created folders could not be accessed by the caching service user, and I fixed it by changing the disk permissions, deleting everything at /Volumes/Disk/Library, deleting the plist at /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AssetCache.plist, deleting the folder /Library/Application\ Support/Apple/AssetCache, rebooting, making sure that the external disk was (local user):staff owned and world had at least visibility (drwx---r-x), then starting the caching service from scratch.

Apr 26, 2015 8:32 PM in response to jhoogeboom

Did you ever find a fix for this, @jhodgeboom? I'm having the same issue—shows how much is used by Mac software, iOS software, and other while Caching is turned off, but when I turn it on, Cache Used switches to unavailable, usage bar is greyed out, and these messages show up in /Library/Server/Caching/Logs/Debug.log:


2015-04-26 23:23:13.988 Caching Server started 2015-04-26 23:23:13.995 Server GUID is 4CE738F2-B384-4717-A791-8603C31B8553 2015-04-26 23:23:13.996 Waiting for /Volumes/Belegost/Library/Server/Caching/Data to appear 2015-04-26 23:26:13.542 Timed out waiting for /Volumes/Belegost/Library/Server/Caching/Data to appear 2015-04-26 23:26:13.545 Caching Server shutting down (75)

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