Bug 309132

Summary:	avahi-daemon and avahi-dnsconfd claims to be dead after boot.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Ladislav Michnovic <lmichnovic>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Mauro Parra Miranda <mauro>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	sbrabec
Version:	Beta 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Other
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Found By:	---	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Patch for this bug, according to jpr's comment. Patch for this bug, according to jpr's comment.

Description Ladislav Michnovic 2007-09-10 09:41:30 UTC

I have installed my computer and chacked these daemons if they are running:
/etc/init.d/avahi-daemon status
Checking for Avahi daemon:                             dead
/etc/init.d/avahi-dnsconfd status
Checking for Avahi DNS Configuration daemon:                      dead

but they are not running.

Comment 1 JP Rosevear 2007-09-10 14:46:57 UTC

jpr@rook:~> /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon status
Checking for Avahi daemon: Failed to open PID file: Permission denied
                                                                      dead
jpr@rook:~> /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon status
Checking for Avahi daemon: Failed to open PID file: Permission denied
                                                                      dead

Its not actually dead.  The pid file is just not accessible because avahia-daemon via libdaemon tries to open it read/write instead of just read as a regular user when passed the -c option.

Comment 3 JP Rosevear 2007-09-10 14:51:01 UTC

Lowering severity, since the daemons aren't actually dead.

Comment 4 JP Rosevear 2007-09-10 17:22:21 UTC

From lennart upstream:

If I remember correctly I open it as RDWR there because of a limitation
of the file locking APIs on some OSes, where locking files you don't
have opened as O_RDWR doesn't work.

However, I agree that the bug report mentioned is worth fixing. So it
might be advisable to add some code to reopen the file as O_RDONLY if
O_RDWR fails, and also to try F_RDLCK as a fallback if F_WRLCK
fails. That should be reasonably safe even on more exotic OSes.

If have prepared a patch for this in SVN r131 (although I didn't test
it) If this works for you I will ship this in the next release of

Comment 5 Gary Ekker 2007-09-11 17:23:12 UTC

Mauro can you get this patch in before the end of this week?

Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2007-09-11 17:23:33 UTC

The patch is actually for libdaemon FYI.

Comment 7 Mauro Parra Miranda 2007-09-13 20:50:58 UTC

Created attachment 163991 [details]
Patch for this bug, according to jpr's comment.

Comment 8 Mauro Parra Miranda 2007-09-13 20:56:16 UTC

Applied patch suggested in comment #4. Submitted and tested --for compilation-- via abuild & mbuild. 

In sake of completness, the patch was added to the bug.

Test packages available here: 

http://w3.suse.de/~mauro/bnc-309192/

Comment 9 Mauro Parra Miranda 2007-09-13 21:00:05 UTC

The right url is: 

http://w3.suse.de/~mauro/bnc-309132/

Comment 10 Mauro Parra Miranda 2007-09-13 21:03:12 UTC

Created attachment 163993 [details]
Patch for this bug, according to jpr's comment.