[avahi] avahi-daemon stops working after undetermined period of time

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 23.12.08 09:46, Brian McKee (map at map-heb.com) wrote:

> Hi All
>
> First post - let me know if I'm doing something obviously stupid :-)
>
> I'm running a mixed fixed IP LAN of Linux, Mac and Windows machines.
>
> Some of the Linux boxes are running Ubuntu 8.04.1 Hardy.  I'm  
> advertising VNC and sftp on those boxes with avahi.  It works fine for a 
> while, then stops working.   The VNC advertised by the Macs always works. 
>  Doing a 'service avahi-daemon restart' on the Ubuntu boxes brings it 
> right back again.
>
> I know 'it quits working sometimes' isn't much of a bug report :-)  I'd 
> like some suggestions on how I can better determine what's making it stop 
> and when.

Have you checked syslog?

Lennart

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