[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#412256: avahi-daemon: fails to browse huge LANs

[Trent Lloyd]

Howdy,

On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 09:37:03PM +0100, Beno??t Dejean wrote:
> Package: avahi-daemon
> Version: 0.6.16-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hello,
> i am currently in a big LANs : more than 200 players on a single network.
> Avahi fails to browse this LAN. Here is /var/log/daemon.log:
> 
> Feb 24 21:29:21 localhost avahi-daemon[1686]: accept(): Too many open files
> Feb 24 21:29:44 localhost last message repeated 104263 times

Thanks for your report, are you able to provide the output of

lsof -n|grep avahi

when this is occuring?

Cheers,
Trent
(Avahi Upstream)

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
> Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.1-ben
> Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
> 
> Versions of packages avahi-daemon depends on:
> ii  adduser                     3.102        Add and remove users and groups
> ii  dbus                        1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libavahi-common3            0.6.16-2     Avahi common library
> ii  libavahi-core4              0.6.16-2     Avahi's embeddable mDNS/DNS-SD lib
> ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> ii  libcap1                     1:1.10-14    support for getting/setting POSIX.
> ii  libdaemon0                  0.10-1       lightweight C library for daemons
> ii  libdbus-1-3                 1.0.2-1      simple interprocess messaging syst
> ii  libexpat1                   1.95.8-3.4   XML parsing C library - runtime li
> 
> Versions of packages avahi-daemon recommends:
> ii  libnss-mdns                   0.9-0.1    NSS module for Multicast DNS name 
> 
> -- no debconf information
>