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

[Randall Wood]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:00 AM, nodje <nodje.co at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

If I understand things correctly, applications wanting to use avahi
communicate with it via dbus.

> 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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