[MacPorts] #14163: Endless Avahi system.log errors

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#14163: Endless Avahi system.log errors
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  Reporter:  dersh at alum.mit.edu  |       Owner:  nox at macports.org
      Type:  defect              |      Status:  new             
  Priority:  Normal              |   Milestone:  Port Bugs       
 Component:  ports               |     Version:  1.6.0           
Resolution:                      |    Keywords:  avahi           
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Old description:

> 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.

New description:

 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.

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