Security Update 2007-005 - Cannot find Server under Server Admin

After I installed Security Update 2007-005 all my machines began to have problems. I was able to get them all running except my server, it is a PowerMac G4 running Mac OSX Server 10.4.9. When I click on my server in Server Admin it acts as though the server does not exist. I am able to boot to the machine and connect to the shared drives from my client computers. However the web server is not working at all.

However when i disconnect and try to connect
with the hostname
When you say ‘hostname’ do you mean its .local name? or its FQDN?
the server admin buttons show up
as little padlocks instead of the normal green. It
does not let me connect.
This is intersting! Whats described is not mentioned in any Apple Server documentation that I’ve seen – perhaps someone knows different? I’ve never seen a padlock icon in Server Admin Services list. My experience has been you can connect to Server Admin and it shows green against services running, or you can’t connect but have the server left in the list and all services are red. Workgroup Manager shows a padlock if you are not authenticated to Open Directory node, is this what you mean?

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Sep 24 14:18:33 gateway racoon[90950]: Connecting.
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ipfilter:standardServices:arrayid:VPN PPTP\: GRE - Generic Routing Encapsulation protocol:dest-port = ""
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ipfilter:standardServices:arrayid:VPN L2TP\: IKE NAT Traversal:name = ""
ipfilter:standardServices:arrayid:VPN L2TP\: IKE NAT Traversal:dest-port = "4500"
Which seems to be correct to me.
As with the iChat problem, everything seems to be correct as reported by Server Admin. I have been hunting for the incorrect setting using serveradmin, but so far everything there seems to be correct as well.
One last item that I just discovered today, and which is probably a huge hint (and I just don't know how to connect the dots), is that when I stop the VPN service (it's running on the gateway server), the entire office loses it's connection to the internet. Turn VPN back on, and the internet is back.
I think my server is deeply, deeply disturbed, but I am not ready to wipe it clean and start over again. I sure would appreciate any insights on this one....

I have a MacMini Server that was running 10.6.3 in use as a gateway for the last 3 or 4 months and everything has been working just fine. However, after applying 10.6.4 and Security Update 2010-005 the iChat and VPN services broke.
I was able to fix the iChat service by using serveradmin in Terminal - Server Admin was showing the correct name of the iChat server, but serveradmin reported a different (incorrect) name. My only guess is that one of the updates somehow changed that setting behind the scenes.
I have yet to be able to fix the VPN (L2TP) issue, though. I can connect internally (to 10.0.1.1) with no problem. I can connect with via iPhone over 3G no problem. I cannot connect externally from a 10.5.8 or a 10.6.4 client - any attempt always fails with a timeout. The VPN log shows nothing, but the system log shows:
Sep 24 14:18:33 gateway racoon[90950]: Connecting.
Sep 24 14:18:33 gateway racoon[90950]: IKE Packet: receive success. (Responder, Main-Mode message 1).
Sep 24 14:18:33 gateway racoon[90950]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Responder, Main-Mode message 2).
Sep 24 14:18:36 gateway racoon[90950]: IKE Packet: transmit success. (Phase1 Retransmit).
Sep 24 14:19:03: --- last message repeated 8 times ---
Sep 24 14:19:03 gateway racoon[90950]: IKEv1 Phase1: maximum retransmits. (Phase1 Maximum Retransmits).
Sep 24 14:19:03 gateway racoon[90950]: Disconnecting. (Connection tried to negotiate for, 29.171451 seconds).
Sep 24 14:19:03 gateway racoon[90950]: IKE Phase1 Failure-Rate Statistic. (Failure-Rate = 100.000).
It would seem that the response to the initial handshake is being blocked. However, serveradmin has this to say about ipfilter:
gateway:/ *******$ sudo serveradmin settings ipfilter|grep VPN
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:array_id:any:rules:_arrayid:VPN ISAKMP/IKE:action = "allow"
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:array_id:any:rules:_arrayid:VPN L2TP - Layer-Two Tunneling Protocol:action = "allow"
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:array_id:any:rules:_arrayid:VPN L2TP\: IKE NAT Traversal:action = "allow"
ipfilter:ipAddressGroupsWithRules:array_id:any:rules:_arrayid:VPN L2TP\: ISAKMP/IKE:action = "allow"
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ipfilter:standardServices:arrayid:VPN L2TP\: ESP - Encapsulating Security Payload protocol:dest-port = ""
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ipfilter:standardServices:arrayid:VPN PPTP - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol:oldDescription = "PPTP VPN"
ipfilter:standardServices:arrayid:VPN PPTP - Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol:protocol = "tcp"
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Which seems to be correct to me.
As with the iChat problem, everything seems to be correct as reported by Server Admin. I have been hunting for the incorrect setting using serveradmin, but so far everything there seems to be correct as well.
One last item that I just discovered today, and which is probably a huge hint (and I just don't know how to connect the dots), is that when I stop the VPN service (it's running on the gateway server), the entire office loses it's connection to the internet. Turn VPN back on, and the internet is back.
I think my server is deeply, deeply disturbed, but I am not ready to wipe it clean and start over again. I sure would appreciate any insights on this one....

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Downloaded, installed, but then during optimization phase got spinning beachball with no progress for over 2 hrs.
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• Opened computer, removed hard drive, put it into external case with FW & USB, inspected HD with another FW computer: while OS X partition could be read (at first), running Disk Util showed it was a bad partition, and had to be re-initialized. Lucky I had backed up all non-OS X applications first!
• Re-installed OS X from DVD to the external HD case, applied updates.
• Moved HD back from external case to the PowerBook: now booted OK.
• Disk Util on HD now shows 3rd partition ("Storage") bad.
• However - when went to tighten screws of HD carrier and close Powerbook, lost the HD all over again. Best I can figure out now, somewhere in that process, the orange power/data cable connecting the HD to the IDE/Motherboard quit working (broke?), so I now have a dead Powerbook, until the hardware issue is fixed.
Bottom line: Applying this Security Update led to massive frustrations, frittering of humongous gobs of time (waiting for OS9 to load from CD whenever I tried to test and see if it recognized the internal HDD), and now a dead Powerbook G3. Hopefully a replacement ribbon cable will do the job; although if it's downstream from it (i.e., motherboard connector pins or IDE controller), that's going to be VERY expensive.
Reading this forum and others, perhaps I should have removed the attached USB devices (cable for iPod but without iPod attached, and USB thumbdrive). Also read somewhere that others have had problems with moving Users folders to separate partitions and symlinking to those cause problems with Security Update.
However: wish Apple's Security Updates were better behaved, this experience is making me much more scared of applying any updates in future…
12" iBookG4, iMacG3-400, 15" PowerBook G3-400 Mac OS X (10.3.9) Toying at OSX Server networking

I hear what you are saying.
Let's talk about failure probabilities over large populations. These trends may not apply to your specific case, since you do not have a large sample, you have one.
Of the components you mention, the ones least likely to fail are those that consist only of wires, such as the Hard drive cable. As I recall, it is a flex cable, which is even less likely to die in normal use unless you manage to stretch or pinch it -- it is made to be flexed.
Next least likely to fail is the motherboard electronics. Those drivers and connectors are meant to be plugged and unplugged a few times, but admittedly are not intended for harsh service, and are sometimes subject to zapping by static.
Most likely of all these components to fail is the spinning metal disk whose moveable heads fly much closer to the rapidly spinning surface than a smoke particle, a fingerprint, or a human hair. One good shock, or a few dozen smaller ones, and the head could crash onto the surface of the disk, scrubbing off some of the oxide and spraying it over the inside of the drive to cause more problems later.
If this is the original drive, it was manufactured in about 1999. The manufacturer probably sold the same drive at retail with a one-year warranty. Eight years later it has failed. Even if it is a replacement, it is the most likely the Drives that will fail. Thats why you were wise enough to make a backup.
I expect that the trouble you are having with multiple partitions is an indication that the disk is dying. The way to determine this is to re-write it with known patterns, and read back all those patterns and note which sectors require hardware error correction (to check for errors). A working drive has a number of spare sectors that can be low-level substituted for ones that are found to be bad during this test.
The way to accomplish this feat under Mac OS X is to initialize the drive with the "Zero All Data" option. It will take several hours to complete. If it passes, your disk has all good sectors. If it fails, running the test again sometimes does a second level of substitution and allows the drive to initialize OK.
I do not know your exact situation, but over a large sample, it is more likely that your drive died, and more likely that it is mostly a coincidence that it happened during this update, except that the optimize is known to read and write a lot of data in different parts of the disk.

!!! Security Update 2007-004 (PPC) causes crashes !!!

After i downloaded the Security Update 2007-004 (PPC) mail and safari refuse to quit. Only force-quit works for these apps.
Also after downloading and installing the update, the computer restarted and got stuck in a startup loop which i force-quitted after 15 minutes or so. After the forced restart the computer started normally but mail and safari seem te be broken. I ran MainMenu for maintenance.
I read several posts on various locations reporting similar problems.
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Hi Jelle2
Welcome to Discussions.
To answer your questions in reverse:
Will there be a fix?
I don't think there is a problem with that update for Tiger. The problem is avoided when during the optimization phase of Software Update, that process is allowed to run uninterrupted. So if you were using mail and safari whilst also doing the Software Update, then that may be the cause of your current problem.
Can I revert the last Update?
Updates cannot be reversed except by reinstalling the OS, and not doing the Security Update 2007-004. But as I have said there in nothing inherently wrong with that update, just the way it has been installed.
Anyone a solution for fixing my mail and safari?
I would run Repair Disk from the Install DVD as per this guide:
To do this: Insert the Install Disk 1 into the drive and then select Restart, then continue to hold down the C key until the Apple logo appears.
This will take you to the installation software, but you do not want to install.
Select your language, then go up to the top menu bar to Utilities and navigate to the Disk Utilities application.
Select the start up drive, then follow the instructions in the First Aid pane where you can click on Repair Disk .
If it finds errors, repeat the process until it reports no errors.
After these repairs, quit the application, and restart normally.
Once restarted normally run Repair Permissions. from the Disk Utility application found on your hard drive in Application/Utilities.
regards roam

10.3.9 Security Update 2007-008 Wireless Sleep issue

Hi,
had a good search around the forum and this webpage but still having a new problem with my iBook G3 OS 10.3.9 (Yes I know it is old, its grand for general webpage browsing at home ) and my Netopia (Eircom) WPA Wireless modem.
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=2005093011343164
Same old story, iBook has been working fine on Wireless since 2003 (inc previous version of 10.3) but the moment I finally added Security Update 2007-008 (10.3.9?) the automatic connecting to my home Wireless network doesn't work anymore
Every time I startup (or iBook goes to sleep)I have to go into the Airport icon and click on the network name. This has never happened before.
On Googleing this problem it seems it was never resolved by Apple?
If I could I would go back a Security Level to what I had before but not sure if this is an option? Auto-connect worked every time previously, much faster than my brand new Dell Laptop for work
Tiger 10.4 isnt really an option either due to it being a lowly G3 600mhz iBook.
Removed Airport2.kext files
Removed and re-established Network connection/Password
Removed plist files
and most of the other things on that webpage to no avail. If anyone has any ideas that would be great. Wireless Router is fine as I have a Work PC that connects automatically to it without any problem.
Cheers
Mick

Hi,
On my 15" PB, with Panther, and all the updates that came from Apple, I have tried a few ways to create what you describe; letting it go to sleep on it's own, putting it to sleep under the Apple Menu, using my screen 'corner' and Moused it to sleep... all come back alive with wireless already on with the proper network.
My set-up Location is tagged to 'Automatic'; in System Preferences > Network with 'Automatic' as the Location, and 'Network Port Configuration' as the Show... Airport is the TOP item on the lower window, and it is 'checked'.
If Airport is not on the top, the computer looks first for a connection in say the 'ethernet' (if that is the top item) until it times out and then it looks in the next one down. You could test this by leaving it alone and see how long it takes to find it... assuming you do have it 'checked' in the Port selections. To move those selections around, just click-and-drag to the location you want the order in.
If you have some thing different here, let us know. We will go from there.

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