Comment 15 for bug 624043

Avahi seems to work for ever until a reboot for me as well but here is the lspci info requested:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

Also i think the order may not matter either, as you can see, if i stop netatalk and start avahi it still advertises the AFP service:

michael@server:~$ sudo stop avahi-daemon
avahi-daemon stop/waiting
michael@server:~$ sudo service netatalk stop
Stopping Netatalk Daemons: afpd cnid_metad papd timelord atalkd.
michael@server:~$ sudo start avahi-daemon
avahi-daemon start/running, process 3409
michael@server:~$ avahi-browse -a
+ eth0 IPv4 server Apple File Sharing local
+ eth0 IPv4 server _device-info._tcp local
+ eth0 IPv4 server SFTP File Transfer local
+ eth0 IPv4 server [40:61:86:37:5e:63] Workstation local
+ eth0 IPv4 Michael-NB Apple File Sharing local
+ eth0 IPv4 Michael-NB Microsoft Windows Network local
^CGot SIGINT, quitting.

Sorry to shoot down the two main ideas. Oh, and about 20% of the time avahi works after a reboot. discovered this while troubleshooting with about 15 reboots in 2hrs checking each time.