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

Mon Mar 24 23:00:39 PDT 2008

Adam, you're great :)
it worked. I actually had 'org.macports.dbus: Already loaded' when  
trying to load dbus.
I didn't think restart it could solve the problem.
Anyway I didn't know how to, thanks for the set of instruction.

Let's see if this support a reboot.

Paul, I had the message:
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.

So I figured asahi needed to connect to DBus...
I don't understand what is the relation between the two.

thanks
Jean

On 25 Mar 2008, at 2:45 PM, Adam Dershowitz wrote:

> Are you sure about that?
> Because I had the identical set of errors a while back and I believe  
> that relaunching dbus solved it.  I think that avahi was trying to  
> connect to dbus and failing because dbus was not running.  But most  
> of the errors that showed up were avahi errors.
> Do you get any errors in your system log if you do:
> sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist
>
> When I had the error there were some existing files that confused  
> dbus, so it would not restart properly.
> What about if you do this:
> 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 -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist
>
> Does that get the errors to go away?
>
> --Adam
>
>
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 6:53 PM, nodje wrote:
>
>> 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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