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software update crashed, hangs server




I've seen a few postings about this before, but no answers. Basically, if I try to run Software Update via Server Admin, it crashes, and then this crash message starts repeating in system.log until the system is restarted:


Sep 26 18:09:06 myserversname servermgrd: servermgr_info: [49] unexpected Software Update state: crashed
Sep 26 18:11:06 myserversname servermgrd: servermgr_info: [49] unexpected Software Update state: crashed
Sep 26 18:13:06 myserversname servermgrd: servermgr_info: [49] unexpected Software Update state: crashed
(where myserversname is my server's hostname and 49 is the pid of servermgrd)


I've been able to replicate on two fully updated 10.4.2 G5 Xserves. One of the machines is running headless at a colo, and this problem seems to be causing it to stop responding to any network traffic, forcing us to call the facility and have them power-cycle it.

Also, the problem seems to be occurring every few days on its own -- *without* running softwareupdate via Server Admin. (I didn't think OS X Server had "automatically check for updates once a week" in System Preferences, but now I can't check that ... I know there's no CLI option to set it.) So just never running software update via Server Admin doesn't seem to be a solution.

Any ideas? Is this related to the buffer underflow vulnerability supposedly patched in 10.4.2?

A few previous posts on the topic:

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Macos-x-server/2005/Jul/msg01355.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2005/Jun/msg00233.html
http://forums.applenova.com/showthread.php?t=6734

Thanks! Please CC me on any replies to the list as I'm a digest subscriber.

joel
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