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-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org