First off, i would like to apologize for cross posting this to both
the radmind and client-management lists. This may be a little off topic
for the radmind list, but I know a lot of people there are knowledgeable
about things that may be related to my problem and we're on a big
time-crush here, If it is too off topic for you, please ignore this, and
let me give a preemptive thanks for anyone who can offer insight.
I am a student assistant to the person who maintains all of the
computer labs at a university in NY. I mainly deal with the macintosh's
in the labs. We have been running our labs with OSX using radmind to
manage them for at least two years now. Just recently with the new Intel
macs we have created a universal base image, which we have had in one
lab for about a month and it has been working fine there.
Enter the MIDI Lab. Our MIDI lab just got in Intel iMacs and have
begun having some very random behavior. I created all the radmind
overloads on bare systems and was very careful to not grab any files not
belonging to the given applications on accident. In the isolation of my
office everything seemed to be working fine. A professor has a class in
there MONDAY so we went to deploy the lab. Test machine for the faculty
went in last Monday, all their software was working fine. Wednesday i
brought the rest of the computers over and imaged them (net
restore/radmind) everything was A-OK, Thursday afternoon around 4!!
PANIC, randomly 1/2 the software would stop working, a few programs
Aurelia, Sibelius and Finale had difficulty playing sounds they would
give errors about not being able to initialize sound playback. Finale
lost it's fonts. What makes this even more crazy is it seems to at first
hit the user accounts (authenticated against ldap, local account
refreshed at logout w/ a logout hook) administrator (local) still worked
fine, after a few logouts or a reboot or so, it would happen in all
accounts. Some we would update against the radmind server, and they
would work fine, others, update and still broke. Some net booted, work
fine, others still broke. I then removed all of the software that the
midi lab uses, and other labs don't, from the transcript adding it back
one at a time... checking the transcripts for files that didn't
belong... testing the above applications between each change to the
transcripts. After 5 hours of overtime Thursday night, it seemed i had
everything back on and it was working!! WOOO HOO, net booted a few more
machines had them update against radmind, THEY WORKED!, based the whole
lab with radmind, everything working A-O-K. 4pm Friday, i get a frantic
call.. it's happened again. Nobody has bee in the lab since last night,
nobody has logged in, nothing has updated. now randomly applications are
dying. I've about run out of ideas, and here is the real kicker, I'm
needed out of town until Sunday afternoon. I'm ready to pull an
all-nighter Sunday, and get this working.... my question:
Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
Any ideas on what to look for, where to start, I'm hoping i can go in
Sunday with some leads.
I know it's really hard to ask for help on this via e-mail without
seeing our exact setup because there are soo many technologies at play
here.. but if anyone can offer any suggestions it would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you,
Jeff
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