OS X server crashing/ nothing working on server

[dloudon96]

Hi All,

 

I've got a strange one, during the summer I updated our Mac server to OS X El Capitan, all was working fine during summer and September etc, middle of August the server app keeps crashing and stops responding, I've phoned Apple, but their technical support is rubbish, their solution to the problem is to format it and start again, obviously I'm not wanting to do that, as all our OS X images and settings are setup. I'm not too familiar with creating images via deploy studio. Please can someone give any help as to what to do, I usually access profile manager which is where the iMacs are setup from and pull the settings for the student machines etc, none of this is working anymore as the server app needs to be on all of the time.

 

Sorry if I've rambled on a bit, I just need help as soon as I can, it's causing problems and one of the teachers aren't happy as it's effecting their teaching and learning, now the head is involved too.

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[3s-gtech]

From my experience, RAM is key. How much is installed? Ours was dying with 4GB, fine again now we doubled it. Our server manages our Macs and iPads, no WGM, we use DeployStudio and Caching Server too.

[dloudon96]

I think there's either 4 or 8 GB. I'll check tonight when I'm back home and remote on and have a look. It was fine when I updated it in August through to September. Just started playing up middle of October.

[dloudon96]

I think there's either 4 or 8 GB. I'll check tonight when I'm back home and remote on and have a look. It was fine when I updated it in August through to September. Just started playing up middle of October.

 

hello,

 

Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, i've checked the server, it has 8GB in, i'm checking the logs about it's talking about can't spawn the trampoline, and also saying that he 'Kernel: proc: table is full'.

 

I've got no idea what this means, the whole machine just crashes, nothing responds at all, nothing on the dock, whenever i try to open a program, it says '[program name] can't be opened', it will only open when it's been re-started, unfortunately pressing the Apple logo at the top left, and going to 'restart' doesn't work, so i'm forced to hold the power button down to turn it off.

 

It's driving me mad, and causing huge problems at work, please can anyone give me help on what to do, i'm still waiting for Apple to get back to me, but not holding my breath.

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[Willott]

Can you try booting it to recovery and using disk util to see if there's up with the disk (or permissions on it). The only time we've had issues with our mac mini server was due to the disk. now replaced with an SSD and time machine backups onto a second hard drive, so can restore from there should the SSD fail.

[dloudon96]

Hello,

 

Yep, i'll give that a try and get back to you.

 

Thanks,

 

Dan

[IAMCloud_Curt]

@dloudon96

 

Have your reset the server back to default? I can send you the bash script if needed.

[dloudon96]

Just about to post an update....

 

Some how it's working again, I've not restored anything, all I've done was install a security update and removed the impero for Mac. Very very weird but it seems to have solved the problem. 🤔🤔🤔

[IAMCloud_Curt]

Yeah Impero is horrible on the Macs. Buggy as ****