[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#788798: Bug#788798: avahi-daemon: MDNS sometimes doesn't work after boot until avahi-daemon is restarted

[Michel Dänzer]

On 15.06.2015 19:29, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 15.06.2015 um 09:52 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
>> Package: avahi-daemon
>> Version: 0.6.31-5
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> After boot, sometimes other hosts fail to resolve this machine's hostname
>> until I restart avahi-daemon on this machine.

BTW, resolving other local hostnames via mDNS works on the affected
machine even when the problem occurs.


>> This machine has a fast SSD, the userspace boot process only takes up a few
>> seconds. Maybe the avahi-daemon service description is lacking a dependency,
>> so it sometimes starts too early. Just a guess, please don't let it mislead
>> you. :)
> 
> If such a failure happens, is avahi-daemon.socket and
> avahi-daemon.service running?

Yes, both are running.


> Does "journalctl -u avahi-daemon" contain any hints what might be going
> wrong?

Not sure, see below.

BTW, this time it started working by itself (without restarting avahi
daemon) after a few minutes. No idea what happened to make it work.
I'll keep an eye on whether it always starts working by itself after a
while.


-- Logs begin at Die 2015-06-16 11:14:26 JST, end at Die 2015-06-16 11:17:16 JST. --
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri systemd[1]: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack...
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 103) and group 'avahi' (GID 106).
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up.
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Successfully called chroot().
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services.
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Network interface enumeration completed.
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'.
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Server startup complete. Host name is kaveri.local. Local service cookie is 2377919057.
Jun 16 11:14:28 kaveri systemd[1]: Started Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack.
Jun 16 11:14:32 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.0.18.
Jun 16 11:14:32 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Jun 16 11:14:32 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Registering new address record for 192.168.0.18 on eth0.IPv4.
Jun 16 11:14:32 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv6 with address fe80::da50:e6ff:fe4e:621d.
Jun 16 11:14:32 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: New relevant interface eth0.IPv6 for mDNS.
Jun 16 11:14:32 kaveri avahi-daemon[719]: Registering new address record for fe80::da50:e6ff:fe4e:621d on eth0.*.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast             |             Mesa and X developer

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