I actually have a fix for this. The reason why the daemon is dying is because dbus is disabled in avahi and the configuration expects DBUS to be enabled for status checking. Make sure you have "enable-dbus=yes" in avahi-daemon.conf :)
** Changed in: avahi (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed -- 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