I'm having an issue with a MacPro1,1 running Tiger Server 10.4.11. These symptoms appear about every three months, and the only solution I can find is to reformat the server partition and reinstall the operating system. The server is literally only being used as a network file server for OSx 10.6 and 10.7 Clients, and One Windows 7 client. I don't have a choice in regards to the platform.
Some of the symptoms include:
- At every restart (logging into the local admin user setup in the installation), all the dock icons reset to an apple default configuration, including question marks for software that was never installed (iMovie HD, iMovie, iPhoto).
- When trying to access Server Admin or any other software that requires password, a keychain access dialog pops up that says "Keychain "login" cannot be found to store "username"". Clicking Reset to Defaults doesn't fix the problem.
- Modifying users in the workgroup manager will begin to start showing error messages with codes that apple has no explanations for, and eventually stops displaying the list of users.
- Transferring any files through AFP to the server only corrupts them.
- When verifying/repairing the disk in both single user mode and from disk utility in the operating system disk, no errors appear. At some point there was an error "too many extended attributes", but it was repaired.
Edit: It's fixed now. Cleared all the caches and temp files, everything works perfectly now. Still don't know exactly what or why, but that's how it was fixed.
