Confirming what appears to be the same or very similar issue on Ubuntu 16.04.3. The starting of avahi-daemon and SIGTERM after about a minute is a cyclical process, repeating every few minutes or hours:
Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Process 3321 died: No such process; trying to remove PID file. (/var/run/avahi-daemon//pid) Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 111) and group 'avahi' (GID 120). Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Successfully dropped root privileges. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: avahi-daemon 0.6.32-rc starting up. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Successfully called chroot(). Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Successfully dropped remaining capabilities. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: No service file found in /etc/avahi/services. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: *** WARNING: Detected another IPv4 mDNS stack running on this host. This makes mDNS unreliable and is thus not recommended. *** Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: *** WARNING: Detected another IPv6 mDNS stack running on this host. This makes mDNS unreliable and is thus not recommended. *** Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eno1.IPv6 with address <prefix_removed>:4aae:be84:cf7d:f493. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: New relevant interface eno1.IPv6 for mDNS. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eno1.IPv4 with address 192.168.215.6. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: New relevant interface eno1.IPv4 for mDNS. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Network interface enumeration completed. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Registering new address record for <prefix_removed>:4aae:be84:cf7d:f493 on eno1.*. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Registering new address record for <prefix_removed>:781d:848d:385a:720c on eno1.*. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Registering new address record for <prefix_removed>::6 on eno1.*. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Registering new address record for 192.168.215.6 on eno1.IPv4. Sep 29 16:01:09 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Server startup complete. Host name is host123.local. Local service cookie is 4044503296. Sep 29 16:02:39 host123 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Start operation timed out. Terminating. Sep 29 16:02:39 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. Sep 29 16:02:39 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eno1.IPv6 with address <prefix_removed>:4aae:be84:cf7d:f493. Sep 29 16:02:39 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on interface eno1.IPv4 with address 192.168.215.6. Sep 29 16:02:39 host123 avahi-daemon[7072]: avahi-daemon 0.6.32-rc exiting. Sep 29 16:02:39 host123 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Unit entered failed state. Sep 29 16:02:39 host123 systemd[1]: avahi-daemon.service: Failed with result 'timeout'. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1507247 Title: avahi-daemon dies after about a minute To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/avahi/+bug/1507247/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
