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

Brian McKee map at map-heb.com
Tue Dec 23 07:35:30 PST 2008


On 23-Dec-08, at 10:23 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:

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

Yes - sorry - should have mentioned.

Here's a typical series from this morning.  I checked and it wasn't  
working, so I did an avahi-daemon restart.
To me, it looks normal.

|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[27213]: Got SIGTERM, quitting.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[27213]: Leaving mDNS multicast  
group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.114.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Found user 'avahi' (UID  
109) and group 'avahi' (GID 120).
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Successfully dropped root  
privileges.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: avahi-daemon 0.6.22  
starting up.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Successfully called chroot().
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Successfully dropped  
remaining capabilities.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Loading service file / 
services/sftp-ssh.service.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Loading service file / 
services/ssh.service.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Loading service file / 
services/vnc.service.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Joining mDNS multicast  
group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.1.114.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: New relevant interface  
eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Network interface  
enumeration completed.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Registering new address  
record for fe80::20b:cdff:fe67:7626 on eth0.*.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Registering new address  
record for 192.168.1.114 on eth0.IPv4.
|  09:19:46 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Registering HINFO record  
with values 'I686'/'LINUX'.
|  09:19:47 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Server startup complete.  
Host name is counter1.local. Local service cookie is 3562443840.
|  09:19:48 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Service "counter1" (/ 
services/vnc.service) successfully established.
|  09:19:48 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Service "counter1" (/ 
services/ssh.service) successfully established.
|  09:19:48 counter1 avahi-daemon[23554]: Service "counter1" (/ 
services/sftp-ssh.service) successfully established.

and as of now (10.30) it's not working again.  There's no more avahi
related entries in the log

Brian

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