/var/log/messages says:
Jan 13 12:42:02 duff avahi-daemon[2771]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 70)
and group 'avahi' (GID 70).
Jan 13 12:42:02 duff avahi-daemon[2771]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
Jan 13 12:42:02 duff avahi-daemon[2771]: avahi-daemon 0.6.27 starting up.
Jan 13 12:42:02 duff avahi-daemon[2771]: Successfully called chroot().
Jan 13 12:42:02 duff avahi-daemon[2771]: Successfully dropped
remaining capabilities.
Jan 13 12:42:02 duff avahi-daemon[2771]: Loading service file
/services/ssh.service.
Jan 13 12:42:02 duff avahi-daemon[2771]: Loading service file
/services/udisks.service.
Jan 13 12:42:02 duff avahi-daemon[2771]: NETLINK: Failed to browse:
Invalid argument
Jan 13 12:42:23 duff acpid: starting up with netlink and the input layer
Happens both at boot and after boot if restarting avahi-daemon service,
and there is a 10-15" wait before the service start script prints a [FAILED]
red tag; avahi-daemon process does start up anyways.
-git7 is the latest "good" kernel
-git8, -git9, -git11, -git13 have been reproducing the issue
thanks, ciao,
--alessandro
"There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck"
(Radiohead, "There There")