Dave Lister
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I have a problem with a printer not printing that appears to be down to the avahi-daemon not starting.
/var/log/cups error_log reports "Unable to communicate with avahi-daemon: Daemon not running"
avahi-daemon has been set to run at start-up in my Boot Services Manager application, but shows as not active after booting.
I tried to start avahi-daemon from the command line and get:-
[EDIT: All dependencies of avahi-daemon have been checked as being installed with all necessary files present in their correct directories]
Hope someone can offer any suggestions. I can provide a strace output if it'll help.
/var/log/cups error_log reports "Unable to communicate with avahi-daemon: Daemon not running"
avahi-daemon has been set to run at start-up in my Boot Services Manager application, but shows as not active after booting.
I tried to start avahi-daemon from the command line and get:-
# service --status-all
[ - ] 00sys_logger
[ - ] 10alsa
[ - ] avahi-daemon
[ + ] cups
[ + ] dbus
[ - ] frisbee.sh
[ - ] javaif.sh
[ + ] messagebus
[ - ] psync
[ ? ] rc.acpi
[ + ] rc.firewall
[ - ] rc.pcmcia
[ + ] saned
[ + ] setserial
[ - ] start_cpu_freq
[ ? ] sysfsutils
[ - ] usb-modeswitch
# service avahi-daemon start
* Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Daemon avahi-daemon Timeout reached while wating for return value
Could not receive return value from daemon process.
[fail]
#
[EDIT: All dependencies of avahi-daemon have been checked as being installed with all necessary files present in their correct directories]
Hope someone can offer any suggestions. I can provide a strace output if it'll help.
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