Deploy Studio has stopped working!

[Zourous]

It was all working the last time we used some time ago, but now the clients are hanging on the netboot just before the menu usually appears. On checking the deploy server its showing that the main deploy studio service is not running. If I look in the logs it constantly shows "DeployStudioServerEnabler : only the root user can run DeployStudioServerEnabler". This is where I get a bit stuck as I'm not a apple expert at all . I've tried opening terminal and entering sudo -s and then the command as mentioned but it says "command not found"? Any help appreciated

[3s-gtech]

What version of OS X is on the server, and how old are the clients? With the demise of netboot, I’ve allowed my DS server to crumble away - I doubt it works any more. Not that I have any faith or experience in the new build processes.

[Zourous]

The server has Yosemite 10.10.5 and the clients are imac late 2013's. To my knowledge nothing has been updated since the last time we used it, which would have been last year some time.

[3s-gtech]

Should be fine then. Are your certs in date in Server manager? Is the DP share mounted? Is the date and time correct? Those sound silly, but it's a pretty stable platform otherwise so usually best to start with the simple things.

[Zourous]

Thanks for your help with this so far. The Repository is mounted as far as I can see. I 've tried turning file sharing off and on just to test. The time and date are correct. The certs I'm not sure about. I have two self signed ones that are ok and one that is pending. I really don't know what I need for this. There were cert alerts appearing, but I've cleared the log and they haven't reappeared since.

[3s-gtech]

Self signed is fine for DS. As you're running Yosemite, you still have access to the Verify Disk Permissions function in Disk Utility - have you tried this? This used to fix so many issues for me, where OS X would randomly break folder permissions and stop things from working.

[Zourous]

Ran that and it seemed to be fixing lots of stuff, but unfortunately it didn't help. Is there any danger in trying to run the Deploy Studio assistant again that runs through the set-up procedure? Hoping it will correct something along the way.

[3s-gtech]

Do a Time Machine backup first, if you can. That has saved my backside when Profile Manager died once and I could roll it back. The setup assistant may be able to point you in the right direction as to the fault.

[Zourous]

Thanks again but the assistant didn't help point anything out. I think I might be resigned to a clean install.

[3s-gtech]

Have you run:

 

sudo “/Applications/Utilities/DeployStudio Admin.app/Contents/MacOS/DeployStudioServerEnabler” -start

 

Which starts the service as super user?

[Zourous]

It's getting strange. I tried running the command as you suggested and got command not found. Upon looking around I found the DeployStudioServerEnabler file in the "sbin" folder at the same level as the "MacOS" folder. So I tried running this under the terminal and it said "Operation already in progress". This doesn't seem to change anything though.

[3s-gtech]

I'd guess that the service is running, but as the wrong user. You can stop it first with: sudo “/Applications/Utilities/DeployStudio Admin.app/Contents/MacOS/sbin/DeployStudioServerEnabler” -stop

then try the former command again.