avahi and nss-mDNS

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:38 -0700, paul beard wrote:
> I was having trouble getting avahi to run.
> 
> # /usr/local/sbin/avahi-daemon
> Found user 'avahi' (UID 558) and group 'avahi' (GID 558).
> Successfully dropped root privileges.
> avahi-daemon 0.6.18 starting up.
> WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
> 
> nss-mdns is installed.
> 
> ls -l /var/db/pkg/nss_mdns-0.9_3/
> total 30
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     54 May 29 10:21 +COMMENT
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   6896 May 29 10:21 +CONTENTS
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    199 May 29 10:21 +DESC
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  17501 May 29 10:21 +MTREE_DIRS
> 
> I just rebuilt avahi with mDNS toggled on (it was off before): should  
> nss_mdns be a dependent if, as appears above, avahi won't run without  
> it? And why would it fail to run if I didn't activate mDNS  
> capability? As it turns out, I wanted that so it all ends up as I  
> wanted it.
> 
> Alas, it still fails.
> 
> # /usr/local/sbin/avahi-daemon
> Found user 'avahi' (UID 558) and group 'avahi' (GID 558).
> Successfully dropped root privileges.
> avahi-daemon 0.6.18 starting up.
> WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
> dbus_bus_get_private(): Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/ 
> system_bus_socket: Connection refused
> WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.
> 
> It was working fine a week or so ago.
> 
> FreeBSD shuttle.paulbeard.org 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4  
> #1: Sat May  5 17:20:10 PDT 2007     root at shuttle.paulbeard.org:/usr/ 
> obj/usr/src/sys/SHUTTLE  i386

avahi doesn't need NSS.  It works just fine without it.  This problem
appears to be D-BUS related.  Do you have dbus_enable="YES"
in /etc/rc.conf?  You should see a process like the following running if
D-BUS is operating correctly:

/usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system

Joe

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