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avahi package

server.c:899: dispatch_packet: Assertion `iface > 0' failed.

Bug #743031 reported by Oleksij Rempel
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avahi (Fedora)
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avahi (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

avachi-daemon failed to start on both of my PCs, with error:
server.c:899: dispatch_packet: Assertion `iface > 0' failed.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: avahi-daemon 0.6.29-0ubuntu2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-08140-g6c51038 i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Mar 26 11:04:30 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: avahi
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-01-04 (80 days ago)

Related branches

lp:ubuntu/natty/avahi
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In , Tomasz (tomasz-redhat-bugs) wrote :

Description of problem:
Since few days avahi cannot start neither during system boot not manually:

# avahi-daemon --debug
Found user 'avahi' (UID 498) and group 'avahi' (GID 497).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
avahi-daemon 0.6.29 starting up.
Successfully called chroot().
Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Loading service file /services/ssh.service.
Loading service file /services/udisks.service.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.6.26.
New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Network interface enumeration completed.
Registering new address record for 192.168.6.26 on eth0.IPv4.
Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'.
avahi-daemon: registering [64test.local]: server.c:899: dispatch_packet: Assertion `iface > 0' failed.
Aborted

Hardware is virtual machine on top of ESXi (using vmxnet3 driver).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
avahi-0.6.29-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

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Oleksij Rempel (olerem) wrote :
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In , Lennart (lennart-redhat-bugs) wrote :

That suggests there is a kernel bug somewhere, in that IP_PKTINFO returned ifindex=0 for a packet wew received.

Anyway, I changed avahi upstream now to handle this case.

Upload to F15 follows shortly.

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In , Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs) wrote :

avahi-0.6.30-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/avahi-0.6.30-1.fc15

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in avahi (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Fix Committed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package avahi - 0.6.30-0ubuntu1

---------------
avahi (0.6.30-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream version, fixes `iface > 0' assertion errors (lp: #743031)
  * debian/patches/02_avahi-discover.patch:
    - the patch is in the new version
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Tue, 05 Apr 2011 16:12:15 +0200

Changed in avahi (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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In , Fedora (fedora-redhat-bugs) wrote :

avahi-0.6.30-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in avahi (Fedora):
importance: Unknown → Undecided
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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