On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 19:18 +0200, Björn Martensen wrote: > hi, > > not sure what's wrong here, but after todays change to the autoip code > (now using avahi-autoipd), nm just gives me a "disconnected" > notification immediately when i try to activate an autoip connection. > so i tried running avahi-autoipd in a terminal, which gives me this > weird error: > > $ sudo avahi-autoipd eth0 > Failed to find user 'avahi-autoipd'. > > what's with the user thing? is my distro doing stuff wrong and if so, > what's that? or is avahi broken?
That's probably the issue; avahi-autoipd usually tries to use it's own user and drop privileges after launch. Fedora avahi-autoipd package does: /usr/sbin/groupadd -f -r avahi-autoipd /usr/bin/id avahi-autoipd >/dev/null 2>&1 || \ /usr/sbin/useradd -r -g avahi-autoipd -c 'avahi-autoipd' -s /sbin/nologin -d %{_localstatedir}/lib/avahi-autoipd avahi-autoipd Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list