Unable to Determine UUID for Host

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Larry Goldman

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Running Snow Leopard Server 10.6.5 on Parallels 6.0.11992 on a Mac Mini running 10.6.5.

When I try to run a Time Machine backup to an AFP volume, backupd crashes, leaving a remnant of the volume mounted in Server Admin, but not visible via hdiutil in Terminal. Here is the Console log of the Time Machine backup:


1/3/11 6:58:36 PM com.apple.backupd[1298] Starting standard backup
1/3/11 6:58:51 PM com.apple.backupd[1298] Attempting to mount network destination using URL: afp://user@mini._afpovertcp._tcp.local/HD
1/3/11 6:58:52 PM com.apple.backupd[1298] Mounted network destination using URL: afp://user@mini._afpovertcp._tcp.local/HD
1/3/11 6:58:52 PM com.apple.backupd[1298] Unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35 Resource temporarily unavailable
1/3/11 6:58:52 PM com.apple.backupd[1298] terminate called after throwing an instance of 'NSException'
1/3/11 6:58:57 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.backupd[1298]) Job appears to have crashed: Abort trap
1/3/11 6:58:58 PM com.apple.ReportCrash.Root[1343] 2011-01-03 18:58:58.391 ReportCrash[1343:2a03] Saved crash report for backupd[1298] version ??? (???) to /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/backupd_2011-01-03-185858_localhost.crash
 
Any success in resolving this? I've got the same issue except much more rampant. Every 5-6 minutes I see this message:
1/28/11 9:14:44 PM Console[209] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
1/28/11 9:14:59 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.suhelperd[153]) Exited with exit code: 2
1/28/11 9:15:08 PM Software Update[821] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
1/28/11 9:15:16 PM com.apple.suhelperd[823] 2011-01-28 21:15:16.001 makequeues[824:903] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
1/28/11 9:15:26 PM mdworker[826] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
1/28/11 9:23:21 PM quicklookd[940] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35
1/28/11 9:27:59 PM quicklookd[1002] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error: 35

I am also having all kinds of weird problems, like Software Updating launching and telling me I have updates, and then quitting when I try and click the Update button.

I have a Core i7 2010 iMac running Mac OS X Server 10.6.6. I reproduced this issue quite easily by just installing Snow Leopard Server and restarting.
 
Fix for Unable to Determine UUID for Host

Ryan_M:

The fix for me was two step:

1) Edit /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist to include the following:

<dict>
<key>BSD Name</key>
<string>en3</string>
<key>IOBuiltin</key>
<false/>
<key>IOInterfaceType</key>
<integer>6</integer>
<key>IOInterfaceUnit</key>
<integer>3</integer>
<key>IOLocation</key>
<string></string>
<key>IOMACAddress</key>
<data>
ABbPoF5V
</data>
<key>IOPathMatch</key>
<string>IOService:/AppleACPIPlatformExpert/PCI0@0/AppleACPIPCI/P0P3@1C,2/
IOPCI2PCIBridge/pci14e4,4311@0/AirPort_Brcm43xx/IO80211Interface</string>
<key>SCNetworkInterfaceType</key>
<string>IEEE80211</string>
</dict>

2) Completely uninstall and then reinstall Parallels: http://kb.parallels.com/9087

Does it work?

Larry Goldman
 
No, that didn't work for me. I tried changing the SystemConfiguration.plist file in both the virtual machine and the host Mac, and neither worked. I also uninstalled Parallels as suggested.

I'm at a loss. I'm about ready to download the trial to VMWare and see how it goes.
 
Is there no traction on this issue? I just installed (and reinstalled) 6.0.12090.660720 on a number of environments and they all complained of the same issue. Google was of no help.

I would be more then happy to do whatever I can to help solve this issue (though my trial expires in 9 days). I would very much like to know this is getting fixed before shelling out my own pocket money... so please.... can someone step in?
 
Update / Additional Information

One rather strange tidbit is the following:

The error message seems to only show for me when I am shell'd into the server (through ssh). The account is administrator, but not root.

If I "sudo su" to the root account, then the error messages do not show.

Also... if I am logged in through the parallels window, then it does not seem to show either.
 
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