I am experiencing issues running avahi-daemon 0.6.31.
I also unistalled and reinstalled again but I always have errors on boot:
Jan 14 12:13:27 avahi-daemon[1773]: Failed to find user 'avahi'.
Jan 14 12:13:28 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jan 14 12:13:28 systemd[1]: Unit avahi-daemon.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 12:13:28 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
Jan 14 12:24:42 avahi-daemon[4758]: Failed to find user 'avahi'.
Jan 14 12:24:42 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jan 14 12:24:42 systemd[1]: Unit avahi-daemon.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 12:24:42 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
Jan 14 12:24:42 avahi-daemon[4773]: Failed to find user 'avahi'.
Jan 14 12:24:42 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jan 14 12:24:43 systemd[1]: Unit avahi-daemon.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 12:24:43 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
Jan 14 12:24:43 avahi-daemon[4790]: Failed to find user 'avahi'.
Jan 14 12:24:43 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jan 14 12:24:43 systemd[1]: Unit avahi-daemon.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 12:24:43 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
Jan 14 12:24:44 avahi-daemon[4812]: Failed to find user 'avahi'.
Jan 14 12:24:44 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jan 14 12:24:44 systemd[1]: Unit avahi-daemon.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 12:24:44 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
Jan 14 12:24:45 avahi-daemon[4824]: Failed to find user 'avahi'.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: Unit avahi-daemon.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for avahi-daemon.service
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: Unit avahi-daemon.socket entered failed state.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
running
systemctl status avahi-daemon.service
it always returns:
● avahi-daemon.service - Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/avahi-daemon.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit) since Thu 2016-01-14 12:24:45 UTC; 16min ago
Process: 4824 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/avahi-daemon -s (code=exited, status=255)
Main PID: 4824 (code=exited, status=255)
Jan 14 12:24:44 systemd[1]: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack...
Jan 14 12:24:45 avahi-daemon[4824]: Failed to find user 'avahi'.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: Failed to start Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: Unit avahi-daemon.service entered failed state.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: start request repeated too quickly for avahi-daemon.service
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: Failed to start Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack.
Jan 14 12:24:45 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service failed.
while avahi user and group is in both /etc/shadow and /etc/group.. Looking through internet for the error message:
Failed to find user 'avahi'
don't returns me very useful results..
What could cause this issue ?
avahi
user is there in/etc/passwd
file ?avahi
is in the/etc/passwd
file.