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Bug 352070 - net-dns/avahi (all versions) fails to start on dev kernel (post 2.6.37)
Summary: net-dns/avahi (all versions) fails to start on dev kernel (post 2.6.37)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: Sven Wegener
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Reported: 2011-01-18 21:52 UTC by Wojciech Pyczak
Modified: 2011-01-23 20:25 UTC (History)
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Description Wojciech Pyczak 2011-01-18 21:52:05 UTC
Apparently commit [1] exposed bug in avahi which prevents it from starting up correctly (thus affecting other services, depending on it) and of course increases boot time by few seconds (due to timeout):

Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 105) and group 'avahi' (GID 416).
Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: avahi-daemon 0.6.28 starting up.
Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: Successfully called chroot().
Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: Loading service file /services/sftp-ssh.service.
Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: Loading service file /services/ssh.service.
Jan 18 11:52:49 radscorpion avahi-daemon[23668]: NETLINK: Failed to browse: Invalid argument
Jan 18 11:53:09 radscorpion /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon[23468]: ERROR: avahi-daemon failed to start

While this is an upstream bug (ticket [2]) and 2.6.38 is far from being released, for now it affects very small group of users. However there is no way of telling when next version of avahi will be released and when it will marked stable, so IHMO it would be nice to have a fix already included in portage (there is a patch included in ticket on avahi website).

[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0ab03c2b1478f2438d2c80204f7fef65b1bca9cf
[2] http://avahi.org/ticket/328

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev 2011-01-23 20:25:44 UTC
Thanks, commited.