ARD 3.8.2 v1.1 crash Admin

I've (had) the newest client (ARD 3.8.2 v1.1) installed on two different machines this morning (both with ARD admin). One works fine, but the other one crashes at launch of the admin app. How can I revert back to (yesterday's) v1.0 of the client (which didn't crash on this machine)?

Yes, the Admin Console app crashes upon launch (on that machine). I've found the client piece (down in /Library/CoreServices...) and brought the older one back (via TimeMachine) and that seems to have done the trick for now. It'll be mid-late next week before I can do further trouble-shooting. Didn't try uninstalling.

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I'm not having any problems adding or removing users from the 'admin' group by using the syntax's
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dscl . -append /Groups/admin GroupMembership ARDusername
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dscl . -delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership ARDusername syntax and remove them from the 'admin' GroupMembership they still have the Administrator box ticked in System Prefs and can administer the machine.
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Ok, I solved it after doing some extensive Google searching. Still not sure why ARD went bonkers, but here's my fix.
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Hi,
got a problem. giving my old G4 400 to my brothe. rather than go through all of the files I just wiped the drive. Then reinstalled my version of 10.2. repaired disk permissions. updated per disks to 10.3. repaired disk permissions. web update to 10.3.9. repaired disk permissions.
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Hawaiian_Starman,
I've been having the problem stated below (which I asked Amethyst18 in another topic "Re: Safari won't launch"):
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I want to be careful not to create a more difficult situation as you've mentoned in your 3rd paragraph below (...which .plist files are causing my conflict).
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If I copied my bookmarks files to the desktop, can they be reloaded into Safari so that I have the same UI of bookmarks and functionality (except for the Preferences, I realize) that I was using before I had this problem?
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Hi All,
I thought this would be easy but we've drawn a blank.
So much detail online and in the ARD manual seems to be about setting admin priveledges for end users of actual ARD.
What we would like to do is to make the user an administrator of their computer temporarily.
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b.

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Error 485680 reservation warning(node_join) - Unable to lookup local_only f

SETUP
3xT5220
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SC 3.2
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Cluster.CCR: [ID 485680 daemon.warning] reservation warning(node_join) - Unable to lookup local_only flag for device dsk/d10.
Cluster.CCR: [ID 485680 daemon.warning] reservation warning(node_join) - Unable to lookup local_only flag for device dsk/d9
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State: maintenance since January 12, 2009 2:38:26 PM EST
Reason: Start method exited with $SMF_EXIT_ERR_CONFIG.
   See: http://sun.com/msg/SMF-8000-KS
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[ Jan 12 02:37:52 Disabled. ]
[ Jan 12 02:37:53 Rereading configuration. ]
[ Jan 12 02:47:55 Rereading configuration. ]
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[ Jan 12 06:14:43 Executing start method ("/usr/cluster/lib/svc/method/globaldevices start") ]
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[ Jan 12 09:50:26 Executing start method ("/usr/cluster/lib/svc/method/globaldevices start") ]
[ Jan 12 09:50:34 Method "start" exited with status 96 ]
[ Jan 12 13:17:27 Executing start method ("/usr/cluster/lib/svc/method/globaldevices start") ]
[ Jan 12 13:17:30 Method "start" exited with status 96 ]
[ Jan 12 14:28:54 Executing start method ("/usr/cluster/lib/svc/method/globaldevices start") ]
[ Jan 12 14:29:02 Method "start" exited with status 96 ]
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Solution: If the device in question is marked marked as local_only and is being used as the boot device or the mirror of a boot device for a node, then that node may be unable to access this device and hence, unable to boot. Contact your authorized Sun service provider to determine whether a workaround or patch is available.
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per a related post, but not identical investigated /var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/config/ I only had one of the referenced files, not the several hundred those posters seemed to have. I made a backup, and removed it, followed by a restart. There was no effect.
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