That “something” is system itself, activation via dbus as something is trying to use Avahi via d-bus.
See here: Dec 16 14:27:50 Zia dbus[1350]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service' I suggest you try “disable” instead of “stop” the service to prevent it being re-activated. > On 17 Dec 2014, at 3:30 am, Anthony DeRobertis <anth...@derobert.net> wrote: > > Package: avahi-daemon > Version: 0.6.31-4+b1 > Followup-For: Bug #768620 > > On my system, something is immediately restarting avahi the second it > stops. Here is what journalctl -f shows: > > Dec 16 14:27:50 Zia systemd[1]: Stopping Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack... > Dec 16 14:27:50 Zia avahi-daemon[11795]: Got SIGTERM, quitting. > Dec 16 14:27:50 Zia avahi-daemon[11795]: Leaving mDNS multicast group on > interface br0.IPv4 with address 172.16.1.244. > Dec 16 14:27:50 Zia dbus[1350]: [system] Activating via systemd: service > name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service' > Dec 16 14:27:50 Zia systemd[1]: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack... > Dec 16 14:27:51 Zia avahi-daemon[11795]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 exiting. > Dec 16 14:27:51 Zia systemd[1]: Starting Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack... > Dec 16 14:27:51 Zia avahi-daemon[12429]: Process 11795 died: No such process; > trying to remove PID file. (/var/run/avahi-daemon//pid) > Dec 16 14:27:51 Zia avahi-daemon[12429]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 109) and > group 'avahi' (GID 115). > Dec 16 14:27:51 Zia avahi-daemon[12429]: Successfully dropped root privileges. > Dec 16 14:27:51 Zia avahi-daemon[12429]: avahi-daemon 0.6.31 starting up. > Dec 16 14:27:51 Zia dbus[1350]: [system] Successfully activated service > 'org.freedesktop.Avahi' > ... > > So it looks like it gets reactivated before it even fully shuts down. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.0 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable'), (150, 'stable'), (100, > 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.17.0-p+ (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) > > Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on: > ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 > ii bind9-host [host] 1:9.9.5.dfsg-6 > ii dbus 1.8.12-1 > ii init-system-helpers 1.22 > ii libavahi-common3 0.6.31-4+b2 > ii libavahi-core7 0.6.31-4+b2 > ii libc6 2.19-13 > ii libcap2 1:2.24-6 > ii libdaemon0 0.14-6 > ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.12-1 > ii libexpat1 2.1.0-6+b3 > ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian13+nmu1 > > Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends: > ii libnss-mdns 0.10-6 > > Versions of packages avahi-daemon suggests: > pn avahi-autoipd <none> > > -- Configuration Files: > /etc/avahi/avahi-daemon.conf changed [not included] > > -- no debconf information > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
