Ubuntu
avahi package

  1. Bug #624043
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 624043

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Jeffrey Paxton (aeiv) wrote :

Hi Guys,

I run Arch Linux on a Thinkpad and two different desktops. I mention this because I only have this problem on one desktop so it is logical to assume the problem may be hardware / driver related. At any rate I found a workaround similar to the one mentioned in post #17.

just adding /ect/rc.d/avahi-daemon start to rc.local didn't work. Nor did /etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon restart. With or without avahi-daemon declared in rc.conf it still wasn't working. I made sure that avahi-daemon started after sshd in rc.conf (since I'm trying to file-share over ssh) and still no dice. This is what Finally worked for me;

in rc.conf add avahi-daemon just before gdm

in rc.local add

sleep 10
/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon stop
/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon start
/etc/rc.d/avahi-daemon restart

Probably over kill, i don't know what part of this solution is actually working around the issue but it works.

Thanks guys and I hope this helps someone.