avahi logs invalid query without enough debug data

[Simon McNair]

Binary package hint: avahi-daemon

I keep getting messages in the Daemon logs as follows:

avahi-daemon[3007]: Invalid query packet.

These messages have been enhanced in redhat (http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1119.html) by the addition of the IP address in the debug so that further diagnosis can be done. Please can you do this with Ubuntu too ??

cheers
Simon

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: avahi-daemon 0.6.23-4ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: avahi
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[andypiper (andypiperuk)]

I'm seeing this in the live boot version of Karmic and the error messages are really unhelpful without some idea of what is causing them. The RedHat enhancement seems like a sane way forward.

[garaden (matt-the-mech01)]

I'd really appreciate being able to tell IT where these are coming from. I get one of these about every one or two seconds and it's really annoying.

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest development version of Ubuntu - Lucid Lynx.

If you need a fix for the bug in previous versions of Ubuntu, please follow the instructions for "How to request new packages" at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#request-new-packages

[ooze (zoe-gauthier)]

As a sidenote, the message "Invalid query packet" didn't change. The fix in the latest version of Ubuntu (which should no longer be called a development version) brings the exact same improvements as specified in the document linked in the bug description.

[Michael (miiichael)]

Er, I have avahi-daemon 0.6.25-1ubuntu6 (ie. lucid's) installed and I still see the uninformative error messages:

root@cnspc18:~# grep avahi /var/log/syslog|tail
May 31 16:05:31 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: Invalid query packet.
May 31 16:05:47 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: last message repeated 2 times
May 31 16:09:13 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: Invalid query packet.
May 31 16:09:29 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: last message repeated 3 times
May 31 16:30:19 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: Invalid query packet.
May 31 16:30:29 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: last message repeated 2 times
May 31 16:35:46 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: Invalid query packet.
May 31 16:35:57 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: last message repeated 2 times
May 31 16:44:24 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: Invalid query packet.
May 31 16:44:36 cnspc18 avahi-daemon[1346]: last message repeated 2 times
root@cnspc18:~# dpkg -l avahi-daemon
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-============================-============================-========================================================================
ii avahi-daemon 0.6.25-1ubuntu6 Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon

This makes me wonder whether this bug is as fixed as comment #4 suggests it is. :P

[James Sparenberg (james-linuxrebel)]

Red Hat also noted the bug back in 5.2 but relegated it to errata, then didn't pick the bug back up.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438013

Debian has a "work around" here.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=534622

basically edit a new file

/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/avahi-daemon

add this line to the file

^\w{3} [ :0-9]{11} [._[:alnum:]-]+ avahi-daemon\[[0-9]+\]: Invalid query packet.$

save it and make sure that the ownership and permissions match the other files in the dir. Then restart the Avahi Daemon. (restart avahi-daemon) So far it seems to be working here.

[houstonbofh (leesharp)]

That fix does not add the debugging information, it only supresses the error. The Red Hat fix gives an IP address.

[Hans L (thehans)]

This fix is not existent on my Ubuntu 10.04 install. I am seeing these messages just as other commenters are. This bug needs reopening.

avahi-daemon 0.6.25-1ubuntu6.2

[Alvin (alvind)]

I confirm that the bug exists on Ubuntu 10.04. Needs reopening for 10.04.