lucid has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the lucid task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".
** Changed in: avahi (Ubuntu Lucid) Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/704372 Title: avahi-daemon hangs 'starting up' with v2.6.38 based kernels Status in Avahi: Fix Released Status in avahi package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in avahi source package in Lucid: Won't Fix Status in linux source package in Lucid: Invalid Status in avahi source package in Natty: Fix Released Status in linux source package in Natty: Fix Released Status in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: A change in the mainline kernel to fix a bug in netlink request flag handling has exposed a corresponding bug in the use of netlink within avahi. This leads to the daemon hanging during initialisation appearing as below: $ ps -ef | grep avahi avahi 2497 1 0 11:26 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon: starting up This situation persists indefinatly. All requests timeout and the machine is not visible on the greater network. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: avahi-daemon 0.6.28-2ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-1.27~masterplay201101171654-generic 2.6.38 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-1-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jan 18 11:27:48 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha amd64 (20101202) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: avahi To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/avahi/+bug/704372/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp