[avahi] Avahi daemon dies on certain hostnames

[Sebastien Estienne]

On 3/21/06, Iván Sánchez Ortega <i.sanchez at mirame.net> wrote:
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> El Martes 21 de Marzo de 2006 17:53, Sebastien Estienne escribió:
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> > Are you sure that it's not the dbus daemon that is dying and then
> > avahi-daemon cleanly exit because no more dbus-daemon is available?
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> Don't think so...  dbus-daemon is still alive, while two avahi-daemon processes die:
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> ivan at littlespark:~$ ps -Af | grep dbus ; ps -Af | grep avahi
> 101       6312     1  0 10:31 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
> ivan      7508  7452  0 10:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startkde
> ivan      7511     1  0 10:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startkde
> ivan      7512     1  0 10:32 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session
> ivan     17642 11533  0 18:03 pts/2    00:00:00 grep dbus
> avahi    17636     1  0 18:03 ?        00:00:00 avahi-daemon: running [littlespark.local]
> avahi    17637 17636  0 18:03 ?        00:00:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper process
> ivan     17644 11533  0 18:03 pts/2    00:00:00 grep avahi
> ivan at littlespark:~$ avahi-browse -at
> avahi_service_browser_new() failed: Daemon not running
> ivan at littlespark:~$ ps -Af | grep dbus ; ps -Af | grep avahi
> 101       6312     1  0 10:31 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
> ivan      7508  7452  0 10:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startkde
> ivan      7511     1  0 10:32 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/startkde
> ivan      7512     1  0 10:32 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session
> ivan     17650 11533  0 18:04 pts/2    00:00:00 grep dbus
> ivan     17652 11533  0 18:04 pts/2    00:00:00 grep avahi
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>
> (I wonder why I'm getting a different error message this time... ??)
>
>
> > > P.S.: Should I open a new ticket in the Avahi TRAC with this information?
> >
> > yes please
>
> Will do, ASAP.

thanx, could you also post a
- strace log
- a backtrace
? thanx

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