This may or may not relate to this bug, and may or may not be the workaround, but recently [and only recently] became a recurring issue after accepting some updates on 9.10 machines.
Musing on the source for that mysterious SIGTERM revealed duplicate up/down scripts for dhclient: in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1037 2008-07-27 14:35 avahi-autoipd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1037 2011-03-04 15:51 avahi-autoipd.dpkg-new in /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1039 2008-07-27 14:35 zzz_avahi-autoipd -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1039 2011-03-04 15:51 zzz_avahi-autoipd.dpkg-new and equivalent mess in /etc/network/if-up.d/ and if-down.d/. All files diffed identically, so assuming dpkg is at risk to keep making a mess, I removed the earlier copies and kept *.dpkg-new. Things now appear to be working and surviving a "networking restart" and various rude pokings of the dhclient. Hope this helps someone! -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624043 Title: Avahi needs to be restarted after boot to broadcast netatalk services -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
