I have a G5 Xserve running 10.5.8. For the first year, this server ran like a champ. But one day, it randomly locked up and had to be hard-reset. I ran disk utility on both volumes in the server and even re-ran the 10.5.8 combo update, but it didn’t help any of the problems that I developed that day.
The primary problem is that after 12-48 hours, my share points disappear. If I’m connected to one or more of my share-points, it will get hard-disconnected and say that it’s no longer available. If I try to re-connect to my server in the Finder, it will automatically connect to my home folder, apparently my home folder is the only shareable folder.
To fix this, all I have to do is stop the AFP service in Server Admin, and then restart it. Once I do that, I have a whole new day to work until it boots me again.
Also I’m noticing a few random problems, like I just clicked the “rebuild” button in Disk Warrior to check one of my volumes again, and when did, the right side of the menubar ‘crashed’ and started itself.
I’d love to do a clean reinstall of the OS since it was running so amazingly prefect BEFORE that crash, but it’s an office and very far away server. I was thinking about getting another G5 Xserve and setting it up as my server, then just imaging the hard drive, uploading it to my server, and restoring it while booted off my server’s backup drive. But G5 xserves are actually hard to find these days.
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