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Bug 1110349 - avahi-ui-tools tracebacks when avahi-daemons is not running
Summary: avahi-ui-tools tracebacks when avahi-daemons is not running
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: avahi
Version: 6.7
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Michal Sekletar
QA Contact: Jakub Prokes
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Depends On:
Blocks: 1356056
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-06-17 13:22 UTC by Petr Sklenar
Modified: 2017-03-21 11:56 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: avahi-0.6.25-17.el6
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Last Closed: 2017-03-21 11:56:31 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2017:0793 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE avahi bug fix update 2017-03-21 12:50:39 UTC

Description Petr Sklenar 2014-06-17 13:22:25 UTC 
Description of problem:
avahi-ui-tools tracebacks when avahi-daemons is not running

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
# rpm -qf `which avahi-discover`
avahi-ui-tools-0.6.25-12.el6.ppc64
avahi-0.6.25-12.el6.ppc64

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.
# /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon stop
Shutting down Avahi daemon:                                [  OK  ]
2.
# avahi-discover
A new main_window has been created
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 274, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 269, in main
    main_window = Main_window()
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 63, in __init__
    SimpleGladeApp.__init__(self, path, root, domain, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/avahi_discover/SimpleGladeApp.py", line 108, in __init__
    self.new()
  File "/usr/bin/avahi-discover", line 254, in new
    self.server = dbus.Interface(self.bus.get_object(avahi.DBUS_NAME, avahi.DBUS_PATH_SERVER), avahi.DBUS_INTERFACE_SERVER)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 244, in get_object
    follow_name_owner_changes=follow_name_owner_changes)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 241, in __init__
    self._named_service = conn.activate_name_owner(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 183, in activate_name_owner
    self.start_service_by_name(bus_name)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/bus.py", line 281, in start_service_by_name
    'su', (bus_name, flags)))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
    message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.Avahi was not provided by any .service files



Actual results:
traceback

Expected results:
nice info message that avahi-daemons needs to be started in advance

Additional info:
Comment 3 Michal Sekletar 2016-07-22 10:55:27 UTC 
Never versions already produce nice error message instead of traceback. Should be easy to backport.
Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-21 11:56:31 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017-0793.html
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