Please help, Server problems

[billbob]

The Mac OS X server I am talking had some problems during a
electricity fallout. After restarting it, it could not loging anymore
with any of the passwords, I reseted the root password with
the installation CD.

But, the big problem is that The Mac Login comes up, when you logging
with the right name & password, you directly come in to the Darwin Console.
How can I use the gui again. I am a newbie in Darwin.

I have tried with reboot, exit, logout and that stuff but it just brings me back to
the login, afterwards when I login again I come to Darwin again, It's a loop.

I tried the repair options on the installation CD and it told me my intallation
has no faults.

Please help, I would very very thankful

BB

[billbob]

Its Mac OS X Server 10.2

[hayne]

If I understand you correctly, the login works but the GUI does not. I.e. you are at a textual command-line and it does accept your commands. To verify that you have logged in okay, please enter the following commands (and show us the results):

pwd
id

The cause of the GUI (Finder etc) not starting up should have been written into a textual log file "/var/log/system.log". That log file might be relatively long but the relevant messages will be near the end.
Run the following command to see the last 50 lines of that log file:

tail -50 /var/log/system.log

Look for something about a crash in "loginwindow" or "windowserver" or "Finder" or "Dock".
It may say that a crash report has been written to a file in the folder ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter
If so, you need to go and look at that file as well - it will have details about the cause of the crash.
(You can look at that file by using the 'tail' command similar to above. E.g. something like:
tail -50 ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Finder.crash.log
If the last 50 lines is not enough, change the "50" to "100" or whatever you want.)

And (just to check) you said you did the "repair options on the installation CD" - I assume that you did the "Repair Disk" - that is the most important one.

[billbob]

Thanks for the response, yes I did a repair disk.
I Will try out your things right away, and will give you the answer
of the result.

:)

[billbob]

well her is the result of the system.log

Server/ System/Library/Coreservice/SecurityAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/SecurityAgent: (CSYNC DEBUG): GetProfileBySpaceFromShmem returned NULL for '0000' Calling Dispatcher

Server login window [367]: AuthorizationRef doesn't have a userID

Server login window [367]:exiting to console

Server Windoe Server [231]:login window conncection closed; closing server



heres id:

uid=0(root) gid 0(wheel) groups 0 (wheel), 1 (daemon, 2 (kmem), 3 (sys), 4 (tty)
, 5 (operator), 20 (guest), 31 (guest), 80 (admin)


Thanks for the help so far, but please tell me how to resolve it, really need to enter the server gui again.

[hayne]

A google search for "AuthorizationRef doesn't have a userID" found the following article on the main macosxhints site:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20030214124737473

See if that helps.

[billbob]

Weel that didnt help, do you have some other suggestions

[billbob]

In the link you gave me, the person says that it automatically
jumped in to the console, before the login.
In my case I jump into the console after logging in.
:(