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Date:      Tue, 29 May 2007 16:37:12 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: avahi and nss-mDNS
Message-ID:  <1180471032.68502.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <627991A2-4E44-430D-89CF-2396C127B547@mac.com>
References:  <627991A2-4E44-430D-89CF-2396C127B547@mac.com>

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On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 10:38 -0700, paul beard wrote:
> I was having trouble getting avahi to run.
>=20
> # /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!
>=20
> nss-mdns is installed.
>=20
> 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
>=20
> I just rebuilt avahi with mDNS toggled on (it was off before): should =20
> nss_mdns be a dependent if, as appears above, avahi won't run without =20
> it? And why would it fail to run if I didn't activate mDNS =20
> capability? As it turns out, I wanted that so it all ends up as I =20
> wanted it.
>=20
> Alas, it still fails.
>=20
> # /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/=20
> system_bus_socket: Connection refused
> WARNING: Failed to contact D-Bus daemon.
>=20
> It was working fine a week or so ago.
>=20
> FreeBSD shuttle.paulbeard.org 6.2-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 =20
> #1: Sat May  5 17:20:10 PDT 2007     root@shuttle.paulbeard.org:/usr/=20
> 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=3D"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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