Now, for some reason, when our OSXS server (dual 2GHz G5 PowerMac
10.4.8 8GB) is accessed with Server Admin, the servermgrd process
crashes, and Server Admin can't connect. This happens if Server Admin
is run locally or remotely.
Server Admin[357] Server got an empty response (servermgr_info may
have crashed)
crashdump[444]: servermgrd crashed
I'm guessing that there's some sort of file corruption involved here,
as the crash logs (below) make little sense to me. I've run 'repair
disk' and 'repair permissions', and a full Disk Warrior run on the
boot drive (they didn't find much). No changes or upgrades were done
to the system to prompt this. Everything else on the system runs fine.
Server Admin consistently crashes in two different ways.
Out of curiosity, I did a fs_usage on the Server Admin process, and
the file Server Admin accesses just before it crashes is:
17:19:03.258 open F=17 /private/var/servermgrd//servermgr_info.lock
0.000051 servermgrd
(It's a binary lock file that gets recreated every time I try to
connect to the system with Server Admin.)
-rwxr-x--- 1 root wheel 307142 Feb 28 17:19 /private/var/servermgrd/
servermgr_info.lock
So, as a test, I temporarily renamed the entire /private/var/
servermgrd folder, along with the com.apple.ServerAdmin.plist, and
restarted. Still no difference. Deleting and re-adding the server
entry in Server Admin doesn't help either.