Calendar Server error 504 and 'Server with secure communication unavailable'

That certainly helps me commiserate, But I see no resolution on that thread (another user with a different error camped on, then solved their own different problem.)

Is there a known way to initialize the Calendar Server and actually get it to start up and work?

This is what I get from serveradmin:

Last login: Sun Jul 26 15:09:37 on ttys010

b-aassoc:~ OSXSrvAdmin$ sudo serveradmin status calendar

Password:

calendar:setStateVersion = 1

calendar:calendarState = "STARTING"

calendar:state = "STARTING"

calendar:contactsState = "STOPPED"

calendar:readWriteSettingsVersion = 1

b-aassoc:~ OSXSrvAdmin$

Doing literally what you said made the server throw a major error at startup. It was not happy about the 'Calendar and Contacts' folder missing.

'Preparing services - CalendarServer' Error Domain:SVCConfigurationErrorDomain Code:2

The Server had an Alert saying the the Volume 'Calendar and Contacts' had not been mounted.

Next, I tried throwing away Server.app, creating a new Calendar and Contacts folder, and retrieving Server.app -- No success. I tried throwing away Server.app, changing the new Folder ownership to 'root', and retrieving Server.app -- still errors. Whenever I attempted to start the service, it just sat for a minute, then the slider moved to OFF.

Then threw away Server.app, went to a Backup and pulled in that folder and the files inside it (owned by _calendar User and _calendar Group) from before the Server upgrade. It had no cluster.pg directory at all. Then retrieved Server.app. This time it worked, and from that old stuff, it created cluster.pg directory and the dozen or so .pg files inside it, and the signal-files that the upgrade was done. Turned on the service inside Server.app and it started up and even indicated it could be seen as an available service from outside the local Network.

sudo serveradmin status calendar

calendar:setStateVersion = 1

calendar:calendarState = "RUNNING"

calendar:state = "RUNNING"

calendar:contactsState = "STOPPED"

calendar:readWriteSettingsVersion = 1

Firing up a User's Calendar, I can now see the cached calendar items, but I cannot refresh them.

I have certainly made progress from 'server unavailable', but am not quite there yet. The hour grows late, I will have to see if I can make more progress later. Thanks for your suggestions.

I have been referring to that thread, especially the first post in it. The Terminal serveradmin command has been quite helpful, but as of Server 4, the postgres subcommands are no longer supported inside the serveradmin command. Users should note that in Server 4 and later, commands such as:

sudo serveradmin status postgres

does not work, and does not provide a proper errors message, just four lines of hexadecimal trash.

I did try it much earlier. It appears I did not have a failed conversion, but no conversion whatsoever. I was never able to get it to do anything for me, as I did not have any of the cluster.pg subdirectory pieces to feed it. I had only two folders in:

Server/Calendar and Contacts/Data/Database.xpg

backup

working

And working was empty.

But your suggestions of emptying that directory led me to restore it from Backup, and then when Server.app launched, it converted it happily.

My inability to modify items turned out that it had dropped its certificate, and was proffering "none".

Now I am trying the debug the ability to get to delegates. and one computer that needs support for iCal in 10.6.8.

It appears that delegation information needs to be entered anew. Once it is, things seem to perk up a bit.

For the 10.6.8 Computer, unchecking [√] Use Kerberos seemed to have helped enormously. As I recall 10.6 is still using MIT Kerberos, and 10.7 and later switched to Heimdal Kerberos. Perhaps they are not willing to get along.