Description of problem:

Upon service startup in kernels 2.6.37-git8 and onwards (last tested: 2.6.37-git16), the Avahi daemon hangs at "starting" for 20" and then prints out a [FAILED] tag on console.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

[asuardi@duff ~]$ rpm -q avahi
avahi-0.6.27-2.fc14.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build a 2.6.37-git8+ kernel
2. reboot into said kernel
3. observe 20" hang in boot sequence as per description. Same happens doing a service restart
  
Actual results:

Avahi service appears to fail to start.

Expected results:

Avahi service should start normally.

Additional info:

Discussion as of why this doesn't appear to be a kernel problem, but rather an Avahi problem uncovered by a recent kernel patch, along with a suggested Avahi fix:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg152775.html