kio_zeroconf, Public File Server applet stopped working

[Sirius Rayner-Karlsson]

As of yesterday morning, when restarting my workstation after having updated it, the Public File Server applet refused to load. I tried to add it back to the panel, no go.
I then tried to open the Kubuntu File Manager profile in Konqueror and I get the error:

An error occurred while loading zeroconf:/:
Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
 klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_zeroconf'.
 .

For the applet, I have tried removing the config file in .kde/share/config but to no avail.

The versions of the relevant packages installed are:

kdenetwork = 3.5.1-0ubuntu2
kdenetwork-filesharing = 3.5.1-0ubuntu2

Last time I can say this worked properly was Friday 10th March.

Any other information available on request or as I find/think of it. I will test fixes if made available.

[Raphaël Pinson (raphink)]

I can confirm this.
kdenetwork and avahi don't seem to have been updated lately, so it must be something else.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

Could this be related to bug 34440 (many side effects and duplicate reports already)?

[Sirius Rayner-Karlsson (trudheim)]

That may well be the case.

However, running 'ldd /usr/lib/kde3/kio_zeroconf.so' yields no missing library. Same thing if I run 'ldd /usr/lib/libkdnssd.so.1'.

I can easily run 'avahi-discover' from the commandline, and that works.

Perhaps someone in the know can hint at what should be available for this to work properly? :)

[Sirius Rayner-Karlsson (trudheim)]

Have checked this this morning after the updates overnight, and after restarting my session (logout, C-A-Bs X/KDM, login) the Public File Server applet loads fine, and the Konqueror 'Kubuntu File Manager' profile no longer emits errors.

Many thanks for the fix. :)