Public bug reported:
I'm using Lucid with all updates applied as of a week ago. Everthing on
my system was working fine until this mornings system update.
Part of the update was patches to Avahi "Version 0.6.25-1ubuntu6.1".
After reboot, I couldn't get onto the internet.
When I looked at ifconfig, I normally have eth2 & lo entries. The
problem seems to be a new eth2:avahi entry that had an IP address
assigned that isn't in my LAN. The eth2 entry was also there, but didn't
have an IP.
I solved this, sort of, by editing /etc/default/avahi-daemon and setting
AVAHI_DAEMON_DETECT_LOCAL=0 instead of 1. That's a patch I found on
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1339516 answering "How do I
disable Avahi??"
After a reboot, I could connect to the internet again.
However, some things started behaving strangely. Like the colours of
everything had changed as though the theme had been changed. Just going
into the Preferences/Appearance seemed to be enough to fix it - I didn't
have to click anything else. Very odd. Might be related to a different
update package.
FWIW. I don't think I need the avahi services from what I understand of
it.
I'm running Ubuntu Lucid within a VMware virtual machine on an XP host.
It's a laptop, so the network environment does change twice a day. But,
as I said, everything was stable until this mornings update.
I've since rolled back to a VM snapshot prior to the update and I'm
going to delay updates for a little while, but I can reinstate the
snapshot containing the update if necessary.
** Affects: gnome-nettool (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Avahi update causes internet connetions to fail
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/652870
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