Xserve Leopard Question

[acorncom]

Hi there,
I’ve been running into issues with a new Xserve we have at our school. I migrated our 10.4.11 Open Directory master to a new Xserve this summer and periodically since then we’ve lost all ability to login to the server (see https://www.afp548.com/forum/viewtopic.php?showtopic=22004 for something similar).

Kerberos authentication to the server seems to remain intact, DNS functions properly, DHCP continues to work.

But direct login to the machine, using Screen Sharing, AFP, SSH, FileMaker auth or directly at the keyboard all fail until the machine is rebooted. Once rebooted, it works merrily for another week or so before dying again.

Any ideas of what might be causing this problem? It seems like it might be a problem with the LDAP database, but I’m not sure. I’ve tried reindexing it, but that hasn’t helped. Short of nuking our setup and starting over, I’m unsure of how to proceed.

Any thoughts quite welcome!

David

[jbnlsd]

We have 12 Xserve G5s that were updated to Leopard over the summer and about 3 of them are doing this same thing. One is very consistently doing it around midnight every other night (although it didn’t do it last night). The others are more sporadic and there’s nothing in the logs that I’ve found that helps.

We still don’t have any idea what’s doing this, but it’s interesting to see someone else with the same problem.

[acorncom]

Yes, ours seems to do it overnight as well. We’re running an Intel Xserve (10.5.4) with the latest updates and I can’t find anything in the logs that points to it either.

[acorncom]

I had this problem again this morning, but this time I had a monitor logged in when it happened. Turns out the computer is forgetting the admin user (501) on the local computer. That led me to this thread: http://lists.apple.com/archives/macos-x-server/2008/Aug/msg00744.html

I’m writing my launchd script as we speak. 🙂

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