Network service discovery disabled

[Thomas Novin]

After upgrading to Jaunty I get this every time I log in:

Network service discovery disabled
Your current network has a .local domain ...

I think this is why my shared printers doesn't show up on other systems any longer.

The only thing is, I'm not on a .local-domain. The network I'm is xyz.lan.

$ sudo /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
 * Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon * avahi-daemon disabled because there is a unicast .local domain

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

Btw, when I run avahi-daemon start, I see nothing going out on my network interface. No DNS lookups are done.

[Thomas Novin (thomasn80)]

It seems a file is created at some point in /var/run/avahi-daemon. If that exists, avahi doesn't start.

Workaround for me: sudo rm /var/run/avahi-daemon/disabled-for-unicast-local

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

I can confirm this, but I don't have an idea what should be changed for a proper fix.

[vanhammersly (michnaugh1)]

I can confirm this too. I am running Jaunty on a MacBook Pro 1,1.

[yosam (yosam)]

I have this issue too. It's annoying and I'd like to go away. The workaround Thomasnovin wrote does not work for me.

[Vxzy684 (vxzy684-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

I have this problem too. The workaround mentioned by ThomasNovin does not work for me either.

[Triv (xoblautriv)]

I changed AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL to 0 in /etc/default/avahi-daemon. /var/run/avahi-daemon directory was not created at all. So I assume the Avahi daemon is not running. Anyway, it stopped the annoying notification for me.

[yurik81 (yurik81)]

Ubuntu 10.04 beta. This bug still present.

[ihoru (ihor-polyakov)]

I also have such notification.
What to do? (By the way, my local network is not working)

[yurik81 (yurik81)]

Same here. Is this bug will be fixed in Ubuntu 10.10?

[Hobson Lane (hobs)]

I get the same error in 10.10, but mine may be due to a previous version of my /etc/hosts file with a 127.0.0.1 assignment to the .local domain. That entry has long ago been deleted, but there may be some residual confusion in the configuration of network manager.

[thomas bottensek (thomasbottensek)]

 I Get Network disabled
I run 10.10 and can not do anything in Ubuntu software center.