Subject: avahi-daemon: after some long time e.g. 124372 seconds, default route is removed

From: Arthur Marsh <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 11:52:52 +0930

Package: avahi-daemon
Version: 0.8-10devuan1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?

I'd previously had problems with the default route disappearing and
having to do a ifdown eth0;ifup eth0 to fix it. Removing avahi-daemon fixed
the issue, but the package was auto-added with some updates and I lost the
default route shortly before 124372 seconds after boot-up and again shortly
before 243950 seconds after boot-up.

   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?

Removing the avahi-daemon package again has apparently fixed the issue.

   * What was the outcome of this action?
   * What outcome did you expect instead?

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-- System Information:
Distributor ID:	Devuan
Description:	Devuan GNU/Linux 6 (excalibur/ceres)
Release:	6
Codename:	excalibur ceres
Architecture: x86_64

Kernel: Linux 6.4.0-rc6+ (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
ii  adduser                         3.134
ii  bind9-host [host]               1:9.18.13-1
ii  dbus [default-dbus-system-bus]  1.14.6-1devuan1
ii  init-system-helpers             1.65.2devuan1
ii  libavahi-common3                0.8-10devuan1
pn  libavahi-core7                  <none>
ii  libc6                           2.37-1
ii  libcap2                         1:2.66-4
pn  libdaemon0                      <none>
ii  libdbus-1-3                     1.14.6-1devuan1
ii  libexpat1                       2.5.0-2
ii  lsb-base                        11.6
ii  sysvinit-utils [lsb-base]       3.06-4devuan3

Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
ii  libnss-mdns  0.15.1-3

Versions of packages avahi-daemon suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd  <none>

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From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:06:17 +0100

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Arthur,

Thanks for this.

> before 243950 seconds after boot-up.

There is not really enough information here to debug what is going on. You will
need to reinstall avahi-daemon and try to identify what is happening and why.

Are you suggesting the specific number of seconds is significant?

Are you just using ifupdown? No other network manager?

Mark