Endless Avahi system.log errors

[dersh@…]

Recently my system.log started containing the following, repeated every 10 seconds:

Feb  2 14:16:35 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[808]: connect(): No such file or directory
Feb  2 14:16:35 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[808]: Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you
Feb  2 14:16:35 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[808]: didn't start avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd.
Feb  2 14:16:35 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[808]): Exited with exit code: 1
Feb  2 14:16:35 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
Feb  2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 502) and group 'avahi' (GID 502).
Feb  2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Feb  2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: avahi-daemon 0.6.22 starting up.
Feb  2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
Feb  2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /opt/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
Feb  2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.
Feb  2 14:16:36 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]): Exited with exit code: 255
Feb  2 14:16:36 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Avahi is installed as a dependent to something else. So I am not sure what actually will fail. But clearly the above means that Avahi is not working, and is generating a lot of data in my logs. I did try to restart, but that didn't change anything.

[dersh@…]

I went through my system.log and realized that this started after my first reboot in a long time. So it seems that some port update, followed by a reboot, causes this problem. My understanding is that some launchd changes don't "take" until after a reboot. So my suspicion is that something about how launchd and avahi interact is not handled correctly. But that this change doesn't happen until there is a reboot.

[nox@…]

So this is likely caused by the recent gnome-vfs upgrade, which now depends on avahi instead of the howl dead project. I will look at this problem.

[mp@…]

I think this issue is caused when dbus is not running. When I checked, the dbus LaunchDaemon had the disabled key set (though I don't know why). So I loaded it with:

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist

Once I did this, dbus-daemon started running, then avahi loaded, and the log entries stopped.

[nodje.co@…]

I'm actually having the same problem. Slightly different though, as it says

  Failed to find user 'avahi'

this is my system.log trace (repeated every 10s):

15/02/2008 5:20:43 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[9213] connect(): No such file or directory 
15/02/2008 5:20:43 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[9213] Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you 
15/02/2008 5:20:43 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[9213] didn't start avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd. 
15/02/2008 5:20:44 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[9213]) Exited with exit code: 1 
15/02/2008 5:20:44 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 
15/02/2008 5:20:44 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[9214] Failed to find user 'avahi'. 
15/02/2008 5:20:44 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[9214]) Exited with exit code: 255 
15/02/2008 5:20:44 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

I've launched the command you mentioned but with no effect. In my case it doesn't even mention Dbus not being running. Shall I just create a 'avahi' user and group? How come they could be missing?

[dersh@…]

I am again having a problem that is almost identical to the above. This time it is showing the identical lines except: Mar 3 09:50:27 macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[943]: dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /opt/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused While in the original bug it was reporting: Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /opt/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

And before just running the daemon: sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist solved the problem. While now if I do that I get: org.macports.dbus: Already loaded

So it looks like it is now a permissions issue with dbus/avahi. But I don't believe that I changed anything. Any ideas? This log is filling up quickly because I get the full set of errors and the reconnect every 10 seconds.

[dersh@…]

I think the problem was an issue with dbus, not shutting down properly. I tried a reboot and also unloading and reloading without any luck. But the following seemed to solve the problem:

sudo launchctl unload /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist sudo rm /opt/local/var/run/dbus/pid sudo rm /opt/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket sudo launchctl load /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist

[nox@…]

I'm no longer avahi maintainer.

[yvan.strahm@…]

I tried every solutions mentioned in the thread with no luck! Does anyone have a solution to tis problem?

[nodje.co@…]

I've been able to solve the problem once, but not in permanent fashion. I'm still having the problem.

it keeps logging, every 10s, month after month....

[kenyon@…]

Cc Me!

[nodje.co@…]

I've had the problem for more than a year now. It's still logging, every 10 seconds.

I'd be very glad to get rid of the problem. What if I simply delete /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon.plist and /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd.plist ?? Would it change anything? The daemon is not running anyways.

[nodje.co@…]

Cc Me!

[blb@…]

Note that when avahi was updated to version 0.6.23 in r43074, the launchd items were updated to be disabled by default. Make sure you have 0.6.23 or 0.6.24 (which is the port's current version) as that should keep it from running unless you specifically load it with launchctl.

[nodje.co@…]

great, I updated to MacPort 1.7.0, then upgraded all outdated (much!) and everything went fine. And Avahi oesn't log any error anymore!

cheers

[mcalhoun@…]

Cc Me!

[anonymous]

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

[adfernandes@…]

Changed dbus to no longer require the pid file as per #15081. That should close this ticket as well.