VPN unreliable, hangs Finder

Hello,
I have a Mac Mini running Snow Leopard Server 10.6.4 with VPN set up. I can connect to the server remotely over VPN just fine, mount a share and open/modify documents, but the connection seems unreliable. Usually 5-10 minutes into working on a document (Office 2008) the Finder will hang as it tries unsuccessfully to access the share. The status of the VPN will not say disconnected or connection lost--it just seems like it silently gets stuck trying to access what isn't there.
The Mac making the VPN connection is a MacBook running 10.6.4. For testing purposes, I connect via built-in ethernet instead of airport. It works for a little while, but if I have a file open then inevitably I will end up with the pinwheel and have to relaunch the finder.
I've made absolutely sure DNS is properly configured. I connect to the server by IP address. The server is in a small office with an Airport Extreme Base Station for the router, and the router is set up to handle VPN connections. I can provide more information if asked, but I don't want this to get too long. Thanks.

adelphiconsult,
My name is Ismael. Iam with Small Business Support Center. Even though this is a limitation on the RV082 i would like to explain why your VPN will never fail over. WAN failover is there and it will work fine, but it different when there's a VPN tunnel established.This is why logs are indicating that phase 2 never sees a phase 1 connection. Phase 1 times out because it's unable to find the correct WAN ip.
When the connection fails from one public ip and establishes another connection with a different public ip the pfsense VPN will not now of the new public. The one way it will know is by having the tunnel backup feature on both ends of the tunnel.
First you need 2 devices on both ends that support VPN failover. The one device i can recall that has this feature is the RV320. With two RV320 on both ends would be able do VPN failover with no issues.

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Hello Sean E. Woods，
How do you set up the VPN?
Please check if other computers have the same issue when they connect to the VPN.
If so, this issue may be caused by the VPN.
I have check the new dump file, and here is the result.
BugCheck 9F, {4, 12c, 86eb7bc0, 82873b50}
Implicit thread is now 86eb7bc0
Probably caused by : ntkrpamp
DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f)
A driver has failed to complete a power IRP within a specific time.
Arguments:
Arg1: 00000004, The power transition timed out waiting to synchronize with the Pnp subsystem.
Arg2: 0000012c, Timeout in seconds.
Arg3: 86eb7bc0, The thread currently holding on to the Pnp lock.
Arg4: 82873b50, nt!TRIAGE_9F_PNP on Win7 and higher
FOLLOWUP_NAME: MachineOwner
MODULE_NAME: ntkrpamp
IMAGE_VERSION:
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID: 0x9F_4_IMAGE_ntkrpamp
BUCKET_ID: 0x9F_4_IMAGE_ntkrpamp
ANALYSIS_SOURCE: KM
FAILURE_ID_HASH_STRING: km:0x9f_4_image_ntkrpamp
Yes, DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE (9f) A driver has failed to complete a power IRP within a specific time.
Please check and update the USB driver.
About the Error code 691, please take a look at the following article.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/rrasblog/archive/2009/08/12/troubleshooting-common-vpn-related-errors.aspx
1. Make sure correct username and password is typed.
2. Make sure ‘Caps Lock’ is not turned ON while typing credentials.
3. Make sure the authentication protocol as selected on the client is permitted on the server.
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Yesterday, while I had several applications open, I right-clicked on an image file to open it with Photoshop and my whole system froze (although the audio for a YouTube video kept playing in the background, even though the picture hung.) Now my system is taking approximately 15 minutes to restart and the finder is hanging for up to 5 or 10 minutes at a time for most mouse clicks.
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- At first, I will continue to be able to navigate around to other programs, and usually can even save documents and shut programs down. At some point, however, the entire system will freeze up.
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Totally reinstalling Snow Leopard from disk.
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Trashing Chrome
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Turning off GeekTool
Removing the FireFound extension in FF and updated the Adobe plugin in FF.
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Running Disk Utility (nothing showed up as being a problem).
Cleaning User Cache.
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The following continues to run as Login Items:
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+(Obligatory rant over.)+
_Console details_
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1/5/10 1:10:04 PM [0x0-0x25025].com.fluidapp.FluidInstance.GMailish[268] Tue Jan 5 13:10:04 sethmnookins-macbook.local FluidInstance[268] <Error>: CGWindowContextCreate: failed to create context delegate.
1/5/10 1:10:04 PM [0x0-0x25025].com.fluidapp.FluidInstance.GMailish[268] Tue Jan 5 13:10:04 sethmnookins-macbook.local FluidInstance[268] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSGetWindowBounds: NULL window
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1/7/10 4:05:32 PM [0x0-0x2b02b].com.fluidapp.FluidInstance.GReader[302] Thu Jan 7 16:05:32 sethmnookins-macbook.local FluidInstance[302] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: _CGSFindSharedWindow: WID -1
1/7/10 4:05:32 PM [0x0-0x2b02b].com.fluidapp.FluidInstance.GReader[302] Thu Jan 7 16:05:32 sethmnookins-macbook.local FluidInstance[302] <Error>: kCGErrorIllegalArgument: CGSDeviceCreate: Invalid window
1/7/10 4:05:32 PM [0x0-0x2b02b].com.fluidapp.FluidInstance.GReader[302] Thu Jan 7 16:05:32 sethmnookins-macbook.local FluidInstance[302] <Error>: Failed to create window context device
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1/13/10 9:22:55 PM Quicksilver[230] Prevented load of unidentified action from bundle Core Support.qsplugin because the action's featureLevel (set from its Info.plist) is higher than NSApp's current featureLevel. This is not neccessarily an error. Sometimes this mechanism is used to prevent unstable actions from loading.
1/13/10 9:22:55 PM Quicksilver[230] Prevented load of unidentified action from bundle Core Support.qsplugin because the action's featureLevel (set from its Info.plist) is higher than NSApp's current featureLevel. This is not neccessarily an error. Sometimes this mechanism is used to prevent unstable actions from loading.
1/13/10 9:22:55 PM Quicksilver[230] Prevented load of unidentified action from bundle Core Support.qsplugin because the action's featureLevel (set from its Info.plist) is higher than NSApp's current featureLevel. This is not neccessarily an error. Sometimes this mechanism is used to prevent unstable actions from loading.
1/13/10 9:22:55 PM Quicksilver[230] Prevented load of unidentified action from bundle Core Support.qsplugin because the action's featureLevel (set from its Info.plist) is higher than NSApp's current featureLevel. This is not neccessarily an error. Sometimes this mechanism is used to prevent unstable actions from loading.
1/13/10 9:23:01 PM System Events[244] ### Error:18446744073709551566 File:/SourceCache/AccountsPref/AccountsPref-150/LoginItem.m Line:280
1/13/10 9:23:01 PM [0x0-0x19019].org.tynsoe.geektool3[229] invalid option or syntax: -FR
1/14/10 2:46:00 PM Quicksilver[217] Prevented load of unidentified action from bundle Core Support.qsplugin because the action's featureLevel (set from its Info.plist) is higher than NSApp's current featureLevel. This is not neccessarily an error. Sometimes this mechanism is used to prevent unstable actions from loading.
1/14/10 2:46:00 PM Quicksilver[217] Prevented load of unidentified action from bundle Core Support.qsplugin because the action's featureLevel (set from its Info.plist) is higher than NSApp's current featureLevel. This is not neccessarily an error. Sometimes this mechanism is used to prevent unstable actions from loading.
1/14/10 2:46:00 PM Quicksilver[217] Prevented load of unidentified action from bundle Core Support.qsplugin because the action's featureLevel (set from its Info.plist) is higher than NSApp's current featureLevel. This is not neccessarily an error. Sometimes this mechanism is used to prevent unstable actions from loading.
1/14/10 2:48:16 PM firefox-bin[517] * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x14a43f60 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
1/14/10 2:48:16 PM [0x0-0x24024].org.mozilla.firefox 2010-01-14 14:48:16.552 firefox-bin[517:903] * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x14a43f60 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
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1/14/10 2:48:16 PM [0x0-0x24024].org.mozilla.firefox 2010-01-14 14:48:16.553 firefox-bin[517:903] * __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x14a3d170 of class NSPathStore2 autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
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configuration: iMac with OSX Lion and 2GB TC connected wirelessly.
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Checking catalog file.
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Accessing WebDAV volume from 10.4 hangs finder

I am trying to access a WebDAV volume on a 2003 server on my 10.4.4 iMac G5. If I connect to the server, I am asked to authenticate, at which point the volume mounts on the desktop, but the Finder hangs. If I look at the running processes using "top", I see that mount_webdav is taking up approx. 30% of my CPU. I can browse the volume from the command line without a problem.
Suggestions?

OK, let's go with this. Several others are reporting the same problem:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=428639&tstart=0
and
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=409444&tstart=0
And I've seen it, too. I originally reported this bug to Apple several months ago when 10.4.2 was released and here's my original posting: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=647624
So far, all I can say is the following:
1. The error message is not related to permissions being set incorrectly. As you've found out (or seen in the previous postings), you can use POSIX permissions or Tiger's Effective Permissions model, which incorporates ACLs.
2. The problem is specific to the Mac OS X 10.4.x Finder. Earlier Finders do not exhibit this problem. Attempting a copy (move or rename) via Terminal with cp, ditto, or mv is always successful.
3. I believe that the problem is related to the client's checking of permissions against stored directory information (checking for masked AFP permissions). You're more likely to get this error with a client that's bound to the server's Open Directory domain than one that's not.
4. I'm quite surprised that it's taken almost a year for this bug to really become discovered. I've noticed it right away and I think Apple has known about it for some time. I do think that the problem has gotten a little bit better with Mac OS X 10.4.4 and 10.4.5, but your mileage may vary.
I encourage you to keep posting details and filing Mac OS X Feedback reports (http://www.apple.com/feedback/server.html). Maybe we can find a solution or Apple will take notice.
--Gerrit

USB transfer hangs, Finder freezes - cannot relaunch Finder

Is there a way to FORCE a relaunch of the Finder when it hangs during a USB transfer (to a mobile phone) ?
I use Relaunch Finder, Actitivity Monitor, etc, to no avail. The Finder will not re-launch.
Everything else works (such as this Safari use of Apple Forums).
Restarting the Mac is a drag.

Eric,
I really thank you for your quick response. Before I try that, I need to explain something I just did- My time machine backup external hard drive is actually a guardian maximus 2 slot raid 1 setup to mirror so I have 2 disks. Before I do anything to reset time machine, I took that Guardian Maximus and tried to connect direct to my computer to read it. It would not recognize it. then I took out BOTH hard drives and tried to read them individually. Disk Utility said BOTH needed repair. The odd thing is that the Guardian lights did not turn red on either one- both lights green. Which is what its supposed to do. Any suggestions based on this information?
I really do appreciate all you in the forum provide.
Skip

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