avahi-discover crashes on startup

Bug #71467 reported by Alexander Hunziker
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
avahi (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

hunzikea@AlexT60:~$ avahi-discover
A new main_window has been created
Browsing domain 'local' on -1.-1 ...
Introspect error: The name org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any .service files
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 250, in ?
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 245, in main
    main_window = Main_window()
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 47, in __init__
    SimpleGladeApp.__init__(self, path, root, domain, **kwargs)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/avahi/SimpleGladeApp.py", line 108, in __init__
    self.new()
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 234, in new
    self.browse_domain(avahi.IF_UNSPEC, avahi.PROTO_UNSPEC, "local")
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 162, in browse_domain
    b = dbus.Interface(self.bus.get_object(avahi.DBUS_NAME, self.server.ServiceTypeBrowserNew(interface, protocol, domain, dbus.UInt32(0))), avahi.DBUS_INTERFACE_SERVICE_TYPE_BROWSER)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/proxies.py", line 25, in __call__
    ret = self._proxy_method (*args, **keywords)
  File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/dbus/proxies.py", line 102, in __call__
    reply_message = self._connection.send_with_reply_and_block(message, timeout)
  File "dbus_bindings.pyx", line 455, in dbus_bindings.Connection.send_with_reply_and_block
dbus_bindings.DBusException: The name org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any .service files

Revision history for this message
Laurent Bigonville (bigon) wrote :

It's because the avahi-daemon is not running

Revision history for this message
ville palo (vi64pa) wrote :

happens here too.

Changed in avahi:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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