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Joel Hardi wrote:
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)
But you should then have a crash log.
Does it tell something enlightening?
And don't you see anything else in other log files, that could help to
interpret that "unexpected Software Update state"?
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 ...
Isn't this a per-user setting?
If yes, this should only be relevant if a user is logged in (via
loginwindow).
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?
I had a quick look at above posts.
In which sense do you feel there could be a relationship to your problem?
Axel
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