10.3.3 update failed, need to retry

[stmoddell]

Howdy,

When I installed 10.3.3, using server admin update util, my machine went to auto reboot. Unfortunately there was another user logged into the server so it hung. After waiting a reasonable amount of time for this blue screen to clear, I had to force reboot. Now no remote users can authenticate to the server. I can log in as any user locally (with correct userid and passwd)

How can I force a re-install of 10.3.3 server update?

ST

[Franco64]

Delete the Receipt of MacOSXUpdate10.3.3.pkg in /Library/Receipts and you should be able to re-install 10.3.3

Hope this helps

[stmoddell]

Thanks for the help, but I had already moved the receipt out, and was still unable to install.

I did manage to solve this though, as Apple posted the a new pkg, 10.3.3 server update complete. While being much bigger and re-installing many of the previously installed security patches, it did work to reinstall the pkg and now my users can get back in.

Now the question is why did I think that doing this on a Monday night was a good idea? Friday, Friday, Friday, always update servers on Friday.

ST

[stmoddell]

Ok, so after reinstalling everthing worked fine for ther first log in, but after users log out, they can't log back in. I get an odd host key error if I try to ssh or sftp in, so I think it is something in that realm, but not sure how to fix it. Any urls, or place I should start to hunt?

ST

[GeoffreyKOBrien]

If you are using netinfo still you may want to consider backing it up and importing it again. If not you may have an issue with the LDAP, which I have come across. There are ways of saving it but you do have to watch out, you can lose your data. If worse comes to worse you can pull a power reinstall, which in cases like these seem to be the best way to do things(I hate being a purist).