is the avahi user creation supposed to be part of installing avahi?

[nodje]

thanks for the tip Adam.

but the dbus is already started in my case:
It's avahi-daemon that cannot start.
For some obscure reason, it  cannot connect to dbus...

--nodje

On 25 Mar 2008, at 1:28 AM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:

> I believe that this is the problem that I saw before.  It seems that  
> by default dbus doesn't run while avahi does.
> Just doing:
> sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist
> starts the dbus daemon and should allow avahi to connect to it  
> properly.
>
> And, for anyone who might be interested, I had an additional avahi  
> problem where my log was filling up with:
> Mar 23 17:41:06 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[67]: Received  
> packet from invalid interface.
> Mar 23 17:41:36: --- last message repeated 9 times ---
> Mar 23 17:41:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[67]: Received  
> packet from invalid interface.
> Mar 23 17:42:06: --- last message repeated 9 times ---
> Mar 23 17:42:06 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[67]: Received  
> packet from invalid interface.
>
> I found that the solution was just to kill it:
> sudo avahi-daemon -k
>
> at which point it automatically restarted and the errors went away.
>
> --Adam
>
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:33 AM, nodje wrote:
>
>> thanks for the reply Paul.
>> gives no hope though :(
>>
>> I've had this message for months.
>> It's polluting my console log and probably consumes resources.
>>
>> As you say, some other applications need it. So it's not even  
>> possible to uninstall.
>>
>> ...
>>
>>
>> On 24 Mar 2008, at 1:30 PM, paul beard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM, nodje <nodje.co at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I had an avahi probleme due to thuis missing user.
>>> I recently updated avahi to 0.6.22_0 (from 0.6.17_0). It fixed the  
>>> missing avahi
>>> user problem.
>>>  But I'm still having an issue, apparently similar with Paul's one.
>>>
>>> Console log:
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522]
>>> Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522]
>>> didn't start avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd.
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM com.apple.launchd[1]
>>> (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522]) Exited with exit code: 1
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi- 
>>> dnsconfd)
>>> Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]
>>> Found user 'avahi' (UID 502) and group 'avahi' (GID 502).
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]
>>> Successfully dropped root privileges.
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] avahi- 
>>> daemon 0.6.22
>>>  starting up.
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]
>>> WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss- 
>>> mdns!
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]
>>> dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket
>>> /opt/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] WARNING:
>>> Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM com.apple.launchd[1]
>>> (org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]) Exited with exit code: 255
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi- 
>>> daemon)
>>> Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524]  
>>> connect():
>>> No such file or directory
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524]
>>> Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524] didn't  
>>> start
>>> avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd.
>>> 24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM com.apple.launchd[1]
>>> (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524]) Exited with exit code: 1
>>>
>>> Would reinstall avahi solve the problem?
>>> I have seen very few thread about the topic.
>>> Paul, did you manage to get a working asahi?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --nodje
>>>
>>>
>>> To be honest, I'm not sure. This seems to be one of those areas  
>>> where MacPorts and Apple duplicate each other's efforts. I don't  
>>> know if avahi is supposed to do anything other than just be  
>>> installed so other applications don't grumble. An mDNS responder  
>>> exists on OS X, anyway.
>>>
>>> At the moment, my avahi isn't even running, for some reason. I  
>>> don't know if it matters or not.
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
>>> <paulbeard at gmail.com/paulbeard at gmail.com>
>>
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