[vincent_vega]

Just updated my home/test server and client systems and its a smooth ride so far. No major problems, all services come up nicely and everything certainly feels alot snappier.

The two main memory hogs on my server (swupd_syncd and servermgrd) seem to behave somewhat nicer.

I’m not using the mail services on my test system so I can’t give any word on how they’re behaving.

So far so good!

[vincent_vega]

[QUOTE BY= bustthis] network users are working… meaning getting kerberos tickets on login.
anyone?[/QUOTE]

Being able to login doesn’t mean that the user is getting a Kerberos TGT automagically, it mearly means that the user was authenticated properly.

Maybe you could find some clues by running /System/Library/CoreServices/Kerberos directly after login on your 10.4 machine. If the user gets a krbtgt it should show up there.

I’m no Kerberos guru but I’d start this fault-finding-quest by tailing the system.log file piping it through a ‘grep krb’…

Good luck!

[vincent_vega]

No fsck or permisions check beforehand, I did that a few weeks ago after hasseling about for three hours after the last 10.3.8 2005-003 update…

Even if I had done it, that shouldn’t prevent a _hanging_ Apple supplied installer. My guess is that the post-flight script does something funny which screws something up for the update_prebinding fase. (that’s two ‘somethings’ in one guess d-) A clue might be that all my services stopped responding just before the update_prebinding started, ssh and nfs died and so did the usual suspects (mail, web, etc.).

[vincent_vega]

I also ran the 10.3.9 Combo updater on my home/test server box. It too got stuck at “Optimising Volume”, it kept spinning the candy bar without estimating a percentile. The Log showed that everything else went just fine so I quit the installer rebooted and ran ONYX to do a perm_repair, update_prebinding and some miscellaneous cleaning stuff, rebooted again.

The server seems snappier (it’s running on a Cube 450 with 576 Mb ram).
• Squirrelmail is a _lot_ faster than before, even without using the ‘performance cache’ option. I’m not really sure why though…
• I’m not running the AFP548 timsieved/avelsieve combo on this box so I don’t know whether these are broken…
• Cyrus seems happy, I didn’t get any errors on my server nor on my client machine.
• NFS performance seems to be slightly better.

So far so good, I don’t feel comfortable enough to run this update on any of my production servers yet, especially after the previous 2005-003 v1 update ordeal…, but this seems promising.

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