Bug 690416

Summary:	crashes on startup with dispatch_packet: Assertion `iface > 0' failed
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomasz Torcz <tomek>
Component:	avahi	Assignee:	Lennart Poettering <lpoetter>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tomasz Torcz 2011-03-24 10:05:22 UTC

Description of problem:
Since few days avahi cannot start neither during system boot not manually:

# avahi-daemon --debug
Found user 'avahi' (UID 498) and group 'avahi' (GID 497).
Successfully dropped root privileges.
avahi-daemon 0.6.29 starting up.
Successfully called chroot().
Successfully dropped remaining capabilities.
Loading service file /services/ssh.service.
Loading service file /services/udisks.service.
Joining mDNS multicast group on interface eth0.IPv4 with address 192.168.6.26.
New relevant interface eth0.IPv4 for mDNS.
Network interface enumeration completed.
Registering new address record for 192.168.6.26 on eth0.IPv4.
Registering HINFO record with values 'X86_64'/'LINUX'.
avahi-daemon: registering [64test.local]: server.c:899: dispatch_packet: Assertion `iface > 0' failed.
Aborted

Hardware is virtual machine on top of ESXi (using vmxnet3 driver).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
avahi-0.6.29-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2011-04-02 01:49:13 UTC

That suggests there is a kernel bug somewhere, in that IP_PKTINFO returned ifindex=0 for a packet wew received. 

Anyway, I changed avahi upstream now to handle this case.

Upload to F15 follows shortly.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-04-03 22:45:06 UTC

avahi-0.6.30-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/avahi-0.6.30-1.fc15

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-04-15 21:19:23 UTC

avahi-0.6.30-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.