Hello,
I've emailed the list before about problems on XServe with 10.4.x in
which lookupd crashes, effectively locking everyone out. These have
reduced in frequency to a day or two following a restart, leaving the
XServe to run at most 10 days problem free since I 'upgraded' to
10.4.x, but I'm still no closer to an explanation or solution.
I've just noticed this odd sequence. I put my laptop to sleep
shortly after 10pm last night. When I checked the XServe today, I
discovered a lookupd crash report at 22:15:36 and had to do killall
on lookupd to get things on the XServe running again (I stay logged
into the server with SSH to recover from these events).
Looking at my laptop's system.log to remember what time I put it to
sleep, I discovered this line:
Aug 31 22:14:10 morgan-powerbook launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap
1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[16593]: exited abnormally: Hangup
which comes from this section
Aug 31 22:14:01 morgan-powerbook kernel[0]: AFPSleepWakeHandler:
going to sleep
Aug 31 22:14:10 morgan-powerbook kernel[0]: AirPort: Link DOWN
(Client disAssoc 0)
Aug 31 22:14:10 morgan-powerbook configd[68]: AppleTalk shutdown
Aug 31 22:14:10 morgan-powerbook configd[68]: posting notification
com.apple.system.config.network_change
Aug 31 22:14:10 morgan-powerbook launchd: Server 0 in bootstrap
1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[16593]: exited abnormally: Hangup
Aug 31 22:14:10 morgan-powerbook configd[68]: setting hostname to
"morgan-powerbook.local"
Aug 31 22:14:10 morgan-powerbook configd[68]: AppleTalk shutdown
complete
Sep 1 06:35:46 morgan-powerbook kernel[0]: System Sleep
Sep 1 06:35:46 morgan-powerbook kernel[0]: System Wake
Sep 1 06:35:46 morgan-powerbook kernel[0]: Wake event 0008
crashreporter.log on XServe looks like this:
Wed Aug 31 22:15:36 2005 crashdump[8490]: crashdump started
Thu Sep 1 06:36:27 2005 crashreporterd[133]: mach_msg() reply
failed: (ipc/send) invalid destination port
Thu Sep 1 06:36:27 2005 crashdump[8490]: Started writing crash
report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/lookupd.crash.log
Thu Sep 1 06:36:29 2005 crashdump[8490]: Finished writing crash
report to: /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/lookupd.crash.log
How is it that lookupd exits abnormally on my laptop during the sleep
sequence, and there is an event involving lookupd on the XServe only
86 seconds later? Naturally, it doesn't happen every time I close my
laptop, but it seems too close to be coincidental. The XServe is an
ODM, webmail, cyrus, postfix, mailman, DNS and AFP server. Only Mac
software configured using SA is running on it.
By the way, Apple's just replaced faulty RAM and an internal
harddrive module, but the problems predate these changes (and made no
difference to their recurrence).
