** Summary changed: - avahi-browse makes host completion ugly, slow and broken + avahi-browse makes host completion ugly and slow
** Description changed: Binary package hint: bash-completion The latest version of bash-completion, synced into lucid, calls the following from /etc/bash-completion in _known_hosts_real(): avahi-browse -cpr _workstation._tcp which is probably great on a small home network with 2 machines. However, there are typically over 100 Avahi/Bonjour devices on the same broadcast network as my laptop, and because they are generally laptops they are appearing and disappearing on the network very frequently, which means avahi will often hit its internal timeouts when trying to resolve things that are going away. This adds up to the above avahi- browse command always taking at least 5 seconds, which is really quite a lot of time to add to a tab completion. Secondly, something is wrong with the way it is being called, as the first thing it always prints, to stderr, is: WARNING: Unhandled message: interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, path=/, member=Introspect (stderr is not redirected away by the bash-completion script). Depending on how many hosts have timed out, I will then get for each one, an error like: Failed to resolve service 'bob-laptop [00:11:22:33:44:55]' of type '_workstation._tcp' in domain 'local': Timeout reached - The ultimate problem with this being that after these delays and errors, - I don't actually get a completed hostname, and I have to ctrl-c and type - it manually. - All in all this makes for a very unpleasant experience if you are a sysadmin who uses ssh constantly! avahi is a great feature, but please make this silent and optional for those of us whom it hurts! ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Jan 21 11:12:20 2010 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate amd64 (20091020.3) Package: bash-completion 1:1.1-3 PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_GB.utf8 - SHELL=/bin/bash + PATH=(custom, user) + LANG=en_GB.utf8 + SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-11.15-generic SourcePackage: bash-completion Uname: Linux 2.6.32-11-generic x86_64 -- avahi-browse makes host completion ugly and slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510591 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
