#14163: Endless Avahi system.log errors --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: dersh@alum.mit.edu | Owner: macports-tickets@lists.macosforge.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Port Bugs Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: avahi | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Recently my system.log started containing the following, repeated every 10 seconds: Feb 2 14:16:35 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[808]: connect(): No such file or directory Feb 2 14:16:35 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[808]: Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you Feb 2 14:16:35 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[808]: didn't start avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd. Feb 2 14:16:35 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi- dnsconfd[808]): Exited with exit code: 1 Feb 2 14:16:35 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi- dnsconfd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 502) and group 'avahi' (GID 502). Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: avahi-daemon 0.6.22 starting up. Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns! Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /opt/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[809]: WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon. Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi- daemon[809]): Exited with exit code: 255 Feb 2 14:16:36 Macintosh com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi- daemon): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds Avahi is installed as a dependent to something else. So I am not sure what actually will fail. But clearly the above means that Avahi is not working, and is generating a lot of data in my logs. I did try to restart, but that didn't change anything. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14163> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS