service-discovery-applet crashes when Avahi daemon stops

Indeed, s-d-a should gracefully handle the case when Avahi is stopped (be that manually, due to a dist-upgrade, or due to an appearing unicast .local domain).

i worked on these issues should be fixed in the upcoming release.
i handle avahi restart, but handling dbus restart is quite different.

I'm not sure how this should be done, maybe retrying to connect in a loop...

Sebastien, great! However, I wouldn't worry too much about dbus restarts. We do not do them in Ubuntu on package upgrades because most dbus client packages don't get along with that at all. We tried in the past to add 'reconnect on dbus restart' patches, but as the number of client applications grows and upstream is against the idea as well, we just gave up.

The only thing that it should handle more gracefully is the case that there's no dbus when s-d-a is started (an error message and quitting).

avahi restart, and displaying a graphical error message on issues with dbus is implemented in the upcoming release.

It seems that most of the crash that were reported in launchpad were related to the session bus not being available. in s-d-a the session bus was used for notifications, i moved on using python-notify instead of the dbus api. And when something goes wrong with the notification deamon, i disable notification instead of crashing :)

i think we could close this one too.