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Appletalk going deaf every couple of hours

Hi list,

I need some more help.

My Xserve that I just put out to production this week is now going deaf for appletalk every 1-3 hours. At this point, no one can log in from the chooser, but they can see it there. It times out for them. Similarly on OSX client, it just times out and gives a -36 error, which is an IO error. However, users can go to recent servers and connect just fine. It's a workaround, but not a good solution. My system log doesn't show much useful info:

May 8 06:58:40 WorkServer configd[112]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Resources/restart- AppleTalk
May 8 06:58:40 WorkServer AppleFileServer: AFPServer::AbnormalATListenerShutDown - clear listener
May 8 06:58:49 WorkServer restart-AppleTalk[2095]: AppleTalk shutdown failed (status=71)
May 8 06:58:49 WorkServer configd[112]: executing /System/Library/SystemConfiguration/Kicker.bundle/Resources/restart- AppleTalk
May 8 06:58:59 WorkServer restart-AppleTalk[2140]: AppleTalk shutdown failed (status=71)

I had to manually uncheck activate appletalk, save and reactivate appletalk in order to be able to log in again.

I came across this post a while back:
I have tried to implement the print server in 10.2 as well and it just didn't work. I have set up the queues again on our ASIP machine. Overall the behavior was erratic. Small jobs printed immediately and large jobs would throw off the whole print server portion and even took out appletalk completely requiring me to stop afp and restart it. I'm done with it for now. Will try again when 10.3 comes out. On the apple discussion boards there are a lot of nasty remarks regarding the print server, you may try there for more info.

Ned Kettell

I'm taking what seems to be a very poor printer off the spooler on the Xserve and putting it back on ASIP where it works great. I'm hoping this will fix it.

Does anyone know why my appletalk would be going deaf so often? I know it does for MacManager, which I'm not running, just fileserving, windows, PWserver and print server for the behaving printers. I can't just put a cron job in to restart every 2 hours. My users would be even less happy than they are now. I just don't know where else to look and am starting to really look bad because my new $4000 server doesn't work half as well as my 3 year old ASIP server. I was really hoping for more stability, services & better throughput, but haven't gotten any of the three so far.

TIA,

Stu Duncan
Mac Administrator
The Education Center, Inc
336-851-8308
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