[UniMacTech] Server disks filling up

[David Wikeley]

Tony,
    We are not actually running the Software Update server on our servers.

We think that this issue has to do with launchd as it seems to be effecting processes that are controlled by it.

>From system.log:

Jun 22 10:49:26 psion com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd[8211]): Exited with exit code: 1
Jun 22 10:49:26 psion com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Jun 22 10:49:28 psion ctl_cyrusdb[8215]: checkpointing cyrus databases
Jun 22 10:49:28 psion ctl_cyrusdb[8215]: done checkpointing cyrus databases
Jun 22 10:49:31 psion ReportCrash[8212]: Formulating crash report for process ARDAgent[8200]
Jun 22 10:49:32 psion com.apple.launchd[602] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[8200]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 8201 PPID 1 AppleVNCServer
Jun 22 10:49:32 psion com.apple.launchd[602] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[8200]): Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
Jun 22 10:49:33 psion ARDAgent [8222]: ********ARDAgent Launched********
Jun 22 10:49:33 psion com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[8222]: stream had too few bytes
Jun 22 10:49:33 psion ARDAgent [8222]: ServerNotificationReplyHandler: serverEntryRef is NULL
Jun 22 10:49:33 psion ARDAgent [8222]: ********ARDAgent Ready********
Jun 22 10:49:33 psion ReportCrash[8212]: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ARDAgent_2009-06-22-104927_psion.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0
Jun 22 10:49:37 psion com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd[8228]): Exited with exit code: 1
Jun 22 10:49:37 psion com.apple.launchd[1] (org.openldap.slapd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Jun 22 10:49:44 psion ReportCrash[8233]: Formulating crash report for process ARDAgent[8222]
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion com.apple.launchd[602] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[8222]): Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 8223 PPID 1 AppleVNCServer
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion com.apple.launchd[602] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[8222]): Exited abnormally: Segmentation fault
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion ARDAgent [8238]: ********ARDAgent Launched********
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[8238]: stream had too few bytes
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion ARDAgent [8238]: ServerNotificationReplyHandler: serverEntryRef is NULL
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion ARDAgent [8238]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO REGISTER PROCESS WITH CPS/CoreGraphics in WindowServer, err=-50
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion ARDAgent[8238]: *** CFMessagePort: bootstrap_register(): failed 1103 (0x44f) 'Service name already exists', port = 0x6203, name = 'WakeUpProcessPort'\nSee /usr/include/servers/bootstrap_defs.h for the error codes.
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent[8238]: _RegisterApplication(), FAILED TO REGISTER PROCESS WITH CPS/CoreGraphics in WindowServer, err=-50
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion ARDAgent [8238]: ********ARDAgent Ready********
Jun 22 10:49:45 psion ReportCrash[8233]: Saved crashreport to /Library/Logs/CrashReporter/ARDAgent_2009-06-22-104940_psion.crash using uid: 0 gid: 0, euid: 0 egid: 0


On 22/06/09 10:42 AM, "Tony Williams" <tonyw at honestpuck.com> wrote:

David,

I had a similar problem earlier and found that turning off automatic software update and automatic shadowing on the software update server settings in Server Admin fixed it. This was a 10.4 box but it had a similar symptom. Have you tried that?

// Tony

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:07 AM, David Wikeley <David.Wikeley at utas.edu.au> wrote:
Hi all After updating our servers to 10.5.7 we have noticed that software
update seems to be a runaway process creating a file called Cache.db in
/private/var/root/Library/Caches/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate

This continues until the disk is full. The only way to stop the process is
to manually kill it. This then returns the next day creating the same
affect.

Others are having the same issue see this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2047169

Any help would be useful.


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David Wikeley
IT Manager
Faculty of Health Science
University of Tasmania
43 Collins Street
Hobart, Tasmania.
T: 03 62264751
W: www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/ <http://www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/>

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David Wikeley
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Faculty of Health Science
University of Tasmania
43 Collins Street
Hobart, Tasmania.
T: 03 62264751
W: www.healthsci.utas.edu.au/
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