I believe that this is the problem that I saw before. It seems that by default dbus doesn't run while avahi does.
Just doing:
sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.dbus.plist
starts the dbus daemon and should allow avahi to connect to it properly.
And, for anyone who might be interested, I had an additional avahi problem where my log was filling up with:
Mar 23 17:41:06 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[67]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 23 17:41:36: --- last message repeated 9 times ---
Mar 23 17:41:36 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[67]: Received packet from invalid interface.
Mar 23 17:42:06: --- last message repeated 9 times ---
Mar 23 17:42:06 Macintosh org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[67]: Received packet from invalid interface.
I found that the solution was just to kill it:
sudo avahi-daemon -k
at which point it automatically restarted and the errors went away.
--Adam
On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:33 AM, nodje wrote:
thanks for the reply Paul.
gives no hope though :(
I've had this message for months.
It's polluting my console log and probably consumes resources.
As you say, some other applications need it. So it's not even possible to uninstall.
...
On 24 Mar 2008, at 1:30 PM, paul beard wrote:
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM, nodje <
nodje.co@gmail.com> wrote:
I had an avahi probleme due to thuis missing user.
I recently updated avahi to 0.6.22_0 (from 0.6.17_0). It fixed the missing avahi
user problem.
But I'm still having an issue, apparently similar with Paul's one.
Console log:
24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522]
Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you
24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522]
didn't start avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd.
24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[522]) Exited with exit code: 1
24/03/2008 12:05:13 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd)
Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]
Found user 'avahi' (UID 502) and group 'avahi' (GID 502).
24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]
Successfully dropped root privileges.
24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] avahi-daemon 0.6.22
starting up.
24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]
WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]
dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket
/opt/local/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: Connection refused
24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523] WARNING:
Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.
24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon[523]) Exited with exit code: 255
24/03/2008 12:05:14 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.freedesktop.avahi-daemon)
Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds
24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524] connect():
No such file or directory
24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524]
Failed to connect to the daemon. This probably means that you
24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524] didn't start
avahi-daemon before avahi-dnsconfd.
24/03/2008 12:05:23 PM com.apple.launchd[1]
(org.freedesktop.avahi-dnsconfd[524]) Exited with exit code: 1
Would reinstall avahi solve the problem?
I have seen very few thread about the topic.
Paul, did you manage to get a working asahi?
Thanks,
--nodje
To be honest, I'm not sure. This seems to be one of those areas where MacPorts and Apple duplicate each other's efforts. I don't know if avahi is supposed to do anything other than just be installed so other applications don't grumble. An mDNS responder exists on OS X, anyway.
At the moment, my avahi isn't even running, for some reason. I don't know if it matters or not.
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